We Dare You!: Hundreds of Fun Science Experiments, Tricks, and Games You Can Try at Home by Vicki Cobb, Kathy Darling

Synopsis

For adventurous boys and girls, these experiments will thrill and educate.

Would you believe that you could throw an egg across the room without breaking it? Burn a candle underwater? Blow frozen soap bubbles? Make fireworks with a lemon? We Dare You! is a gigantic collection of irrestistible, easy-to-perform science experiments, tricks, bets, and games kids can do at home with ordinary household objects. Thanks to the principles of gravity, mechanics, fluids, logic, geometry, energy, and perception, kids will find countless hours of fun with the selections included in this book. Write with a potato! Boil water in a paper cup! Calculate air temperature by listening to crickets! Use Windex to reveal secret messages! Slice a banana without peeling it or using a knife! With over 200 charming, practical illustrations and even more experiments, this is a book no young scientist should be without. 200 b/w illustrations.

School Library Journal

Gr 3-7

A science-experiment bonanza. Divided into chapters with titles such as "The Human Wonder," "Fluid Feats," "Energy Entrapments," and "Mathematical Duplicity," this volume has more than 200 experiments with clear how-to instructions. All of the projects are doable and the science behind them is explained in a kid-accessible manner. Children can make nutty putty or a sandwich-bag bomb, use a magnet to extract the iron from breakfast cereal, or tie a knot in a chicken bone. Experiments that require adult supervision are noted. Black-and-white line drawings add humor and clarify instructions. This is a great resource for teachers, parents, and budding scientists-and for any youngster who can't resist a challenge.-Ragan O'Malley, Saint Ann's School, Brooklyn, NY

Biography

Vicki Cobb has written more than eighty-five highly entertaining nonfiction books for children, including Bet You Can't, which won the New York Academy of Sciences Children's Science Book Award. She lives in White Plains, New York. Kathy Darling is the author of thirty-six books for children on science, nature, and animals. She has also been a children's book editor, a publicist, and a syndicated newspaper columnist. She lives in Larchmont, New York.