Oobleck, slime, and dancing spaghetti : twenty terrific at-home science experiments inspired by favorite children's books

Williams, Jennifer 1971- (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9781933979342 (pbk.) :
Physical Description: print
192 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Houston, Tex. : Bright Sky Press, c2009.

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Wizzil : meatballs explode & water spurts like geysers! -- Strega nona : make your spaghetti "dance"! -- The book of slime : create something slimy! -- Bartholomew and the oobleck : concocting colorful, sticky & gooey -- Stuff! -- George's marvelous medicine : boiling up a witchy brew, then change the color -- Fun with food science -- The butter battle book : shake cream into butter! -- 3 ways to let it melt in your mouth! -- Ice cream Larry : freeze your own ice cream in a can -- Sad Sam and the magic cookies. Soft & chewy or hard & crumbly -- Everybody bakes bread : learn what makes dough rise? -- How to make an apple pie and see the world : make a fake apple -- Pie with fun flavorings -- Rechenka's eggs : dye eggs & create art using natural ingredients -- Froth it! : blow bubbles in milk & measure the foam! -- A monster in my cereal : find the magnetic monster within! -- Air science and engineering -- Air is all around you : inflating a balloon with hot air & a soda -- Bottle! -- Hot-air Henry : build your own hot-air balloon! -- Daisy and the egg : design a "nest" to protect an egg in flight -- Meteorology -- A drop around the world : create a mini water-cycle in a jar! -- Your very own ecosystem with clouds! -- Twister! : make a "water tornado" in a bottle! -- More on the research.