Outdoor maker lab : exciting experiments for budding scientists /

This fun, fact-filled book is brimming with exciting outdoor experiments to help budding boffins explore the science in their surroundings. Using household items, construct a water rocket and blast it skywards to learn about air pressure, or blow giant, long-lasting bubbles to reveal how surface ten...

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Main Authors: Winston, Robert M. L
Published: Dorling Kindersley Limited,
Publisher Address: London :
Publication Dates: 2018.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Summary: This fun, fact-filled book is brimming with exciting outdoor experiments to help budding boffins explore the science in their surroundings. Using household items, construct a water rocket and blast it skywards to learn about air pressure, or blow giant, long-lasting bubbles to reveal how surface tension works. Make a wormery and observe worms tunnelling, then build a diamond kite and discover the key to aerodynamics. With stunning, brand-new photography, succinct step-by-step instructions, and rigorous attention to detail, young boffins will be excited from the get-go. With a foreword by Rob
Item Description: Includes index.
Includes glossary and templates.
Carrier Form: 160 pages : colour illustrations ; 29 cm
ISBN: 9780241302200
024130220X
CLC: N33-49
Call Number: N33-49/W783-2
Contents: Periscope -- Butterfly feeder -- Wormery -- Erosion bottles -- Soil-free planter -- Seedling pots -- Mycelium -- Barometer -- Rain gauge -- Thermometer -- Anemometer -- Cracking rocks -- Giant bubbles -- Spinning whirlpool -- Wonderful water -- Ice cream -- Marbled pebbles -- Twirling helicopter -- Diamond kite -- Water rocket -- Air cannon -- Cool compass -- Gorgeous geodes -- Latitude locator -- Paper sundial -- Templates.