If it's creepy, crawly, and makes you itch just thinking about it, you'll find it in this book. Get the facts on mosquitoes, fleas, ticks, mites, leeches, and other species that feed on human and animal blood-and live right in your own backyard! Cartoon illustrations as well as photographs, probing questions, interesting facts, and tongue twisters provide a wealth of information about each creature's reproduction cycle, life stages, habitats, eating habits, life span, and effects on humans. Includes resources and updated websites for research as of June 2008. Previous ISBN 0-673-59248-0

Third Edition. Asking questions is one of the best ways to learn. Provides 160 open-ended science activities that engage students in stimulating scientific inquiry. Students answer their own questions as they explore, discover, invent, and experiment in biology, chemistry, earth science, environmental science, and physics.

Help children learn by tapping into their fascination with animals of every shape and size. More than 170 open-ended science activities engage children in discovering the world around them by exploring textures and learning intriguing facts about such animals as elephants, porcupines, crocodiles, flamingos, koalas, camels, and anteaters. Children get involved in science, social studies, math, and language arts through these stimulating hands-on activities.

A kid's guide to gardening. Learn while you grow! Children can grow houseplants, fruits, vegetables, flowers, and herbs just about anywhere-in a rural or urban environment, in a backyard or a window box. Learn how to be a gardener and how to turn the fruits of your labor into tasty dishes and interesting crafts.

These rocket-building activities challenge students to work in teams like NASA engineers-they make and test models as they measure, record data and graph and report results. There are more than 30 demonstrations and 16 models, all with clear guidelines and science standards to be met. The experiments require only inexpensive or free recycled materials. Ages 9-14

Bring science to life using 24 popular children's books. Cross-curricular activities provide theme-based units that engage students in a broad scope of science discovery. Includes activities, student worksheets, extensions, and correlation charts.

Bring science to life using 24 popular children's books. Cross-curricular activities provide theme-based units that engage students in a broad scope of science discovery. Includes activities, student worksheets, extensions, and correlation charts.

Turn students on to science with fresh ideas and approaches from a master science teacher. Active, problem-oriented learning opportunities encourage students to experience the inquiry process and excitement of science. Activities are project-based, web-assisted, and include active assessment strategies. Here's teaching inspiration for any science project!

How do bees talk to one another? Where's the windiest place on earth? Answers questions from all areas of science.

How do bees talk to one another? Where's the windiest place on earth? Answers questions from all areas of science.

Here's everything you need to drive a winning science fair-from start to finish, in a single classroom or school wide! Packed with practical ideas, creative resources and websites, judging guidelines, planning guide, and project timetables, this book reduces stress and helps create a positive learning experience. A 3-page forward by Isaac Asimov inspires and motivates projects.

Be there as scientists monitoring the Glomar Challenger discover what's at the center of the Earth. Walk with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the surface of the moon. Science Giants offers you opportunities to read about and explore the important discoveries in Earth and space science. Each of the book's 25 topics includes a hands-on exploration activity and a reading that discusses the important people and work that led to the discovery.

Be there as Charles Darwin studies the flora and fauna of the Galapagos Islands. Discover DNA with Watson and Crick. Science Giants offers you opportunities to read about and explore the important discoveries in life science. Each of the book's 25 topics includes a hands-on exploration activity and a reading that discusses the important people and work that led to the discovery.

Be there as Marie Curie discovers radium. Formulate the theory of relativity with Albert Einstein. Science Giants offers you opportunities to read about and explore the important discoveries in physical science. Each of the book's 27 topics includes a hands-on exploration activity and a reading that discusses the important people and work that led to the discovery.

This revised edition offers 200 puzzles for home or school! Learn science terms, build a solid science foundation, and exercise your higher-level thinking skills with these fun-to-do, and often challenging, science puzzles.

All you need are some ordinary household objects to carry out more than 175 exciting hands-on science demonstrations. Children will learn about properties of water and air, animals, plants, microbes, gravity and motion, earth, and light as they show off scientific principals for their classmates and friends.

Take a fascinating journey into space! From comets to black holes, children learn how objects in space were formed, what they're made of and how they interact and affect each other. You'll find facts and fun with jokes, riddles, tongue twisters, cartoons, vivid NASA photos, and a cutout mobile of our solar system.

Chock full of fascinating facts, puzzling riddles, Stuff to Do and Things to Remember, this book answers a young child's questions about weather in a fun-filled, entertaining way. Why can't I see fog? Why do some places have hurricanes?Answers to questions like these show how weather affects the way we live.

Learn about the pioneering women who wrote the first computer program, discovered pulsars, and invented radial tires. Short narratives focus on the science behind the discoveries and 42 challenging puzzles reveal the women responsible for the achievements.