Build your own laboratory using ordinary items you can find at home. This hands-on beginner's chemistry book is designed for children aged eight to 12 and offers 71 fun, easy and safe experiments, including: making a coin bottle-burper; blowing a balloon into a bottle; racing a soap-propelled boat; watching colours creep up a celery stalk; exploding your own Vinegar Volcano; sending your friends secret messages with invisible inks; and the mysterious multiplying pennies experiment. Step-by-step diagrams throughout show how each experiment works, and there are safety precautions, equipment lists, and explanations of chemical symbols, formulas, terms and definitions.
I am a teacher with few supplies at my disposal. This book showed me ways to use common items from a grocery store to demonstrate chemistry without spending a fortune or needing hard to find supplies. The book includes a section on safety, which is very important. It also describes why each experiment works the way it does. This book is best for the elementary or middle school science teacher.
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