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  • Ponds and Streams

    Judith Court

    Library Binding (Franklin Watts, Oct. 1, 1985)
    Investigates the plant and animal life found in ponds and streams and suggests related experiments and activities.
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  • Habitats and Environments

    Laura Buller, Ron Taylor, John Hutchinson, Stan North, Marshall Cavendish Corporation

    Library Binding (Marshall Cavendish Corp, Jan. 1, 1994)
    Presents projects and experiments exploring scientific principles in different habitats and environments, including a butterfly farm, bird feeder, forest, and pond.
  • Forces of Nature

    Laura Buller, Ron Taylor, John Hutchinson, Stan North, Marshall Cavendish Corporation

    Library Binding (Marshall Cavendish Corp, Jan. 1, 1994)
    Presents projects and experiments exploring the presence of various scientific principles in nature, including friction, electrical resistance, acceleration, and the displacement of water.
  • Earth and Space

    Laura Buller, Ron Taylor, John Hutchinson, Stan North, Marshall Cavendish Corporation

    Library Binding (Marshall Cavendish Corp, Jan. 1, 1994)
    Provides projects and experiments exploring scientific principles in earth and space, including rain-making water power, and such aeronautic phenomena as water rockets and hot air balloons.
  • The Seashore

    Joyce Pope, Colin Newman, Val Sangster, Christopher Forsey

    Library Binding (Franklin Watts, Oct. 1, 1985)
    Investigates the plant and animal life found at the seashore and suggests related experiments and activities.
  • Air and Flight

    Neil Ardley

    Library Binding (Franklin Watts, Oct. 1, 1984)
    Explains how plants produce oxygen, how air expands and contracts, the concept of air pressure, and the basic principles of flight, and includes simple experiments and models to make
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  • Calculation and Chance

    Laura Buller, Ron Taylor, John Hutchinson, Stan North, Marshall Cavendish Corporation

    Library Binding (Marshall Cavendish Corp, Jan. 1, 1994)
    Presents projects and experiments exploring calculation and chance in such areas as cards, heredity, wind speed, and games.
  • The Forces With You!

    Tom Johnston, Sarah Pooley

    Library Binding (Gareth Stevens Pub, Sept. 1, 1987)
    Explains how forces such as gravity, friction, elasticity, and inertia and agents of force such as leverage and balance affect our lives.
  • Light! Color! Action!

    Tom Johnston, Sarah Pooley

    Library Binding (Gareth Stevens Pub, Sept. 1, 1987)
    Explains the phenomenon of color, how it is peceived by the eye, and how it is important to humans, animals, and plants
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  • Energy: Making It Work

    Tom Johnston, Sarah Pooley

    Library Binding (Gareth Stevens Pub, Sept. 1, 1987)
    Examines energy in its variety of forms, how one form of energy converts into another, and alternative energy sources that may lie in the future
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  • Electricity Turns the World On!

    Tom Johnston, Sarah Pooley

    Library Binding (Gareth Stevens Pub, Sept. 1, 1987)
    Illustrates the properties of electricity and its development as a vital energy source.
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  • Air, Air Everywhere

    Tom Johnston, Sarah Pooley

    Library Binding (Gareth Stevens Pub, Sept. 1, 1987)
    Illustrates the properties of air, how air works for us, and how we use and abuse it.