Books with author Vicki Cox

A collection of deceptively simple dares suggests activities whose impossibility reveals basic scientific principles

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Examines the inventory of a hardware store from the tools to glues and suggests experiments which demonstrate the scientific principles and legends behind these items.

Examines the inventory of a hardware store from the tools to glues and suggests experiments which demonstrate the scientific principles and legends behind these items.

Experiments encourage readers to apply the principles and procedures of scientific investigation to food as they explore ripening and preservation processes, additives, and flavorings

Presents nine questions on different kinds of energy, such as heat, kinetic, and chemical energy, and their relation to matter.

An introduction to directions--up, down, left, right, north, south, etc.--and how maps indicate direction, distance, and location.

Discusses the sense of hearing, and how the ear works to interpret sound, includes simple experiments to investigate hearing.

Describes how soap and water, toothpaste and toothbrush, and comb and brush were invented and how they keep us clean and healthy.

Young readers learn that science can be fun when they discover why plants are green and blood is red, the wonders of cells and reproduction, the intricacies of the DNA model, and other scientific facts.

Using scanning electron microscopy, studies household dirt, dust, and germs, and the substances that are used to get rid of them

Complete with smelling experiments, this collageillustrated book with simple text explains the hows and whys of our sense of smella sense honed in infancy.