Books with title Amazing Materials

Materials are all around us! Investigate the many different forms that materials take, from chunky solids to runny liquids and find out how materials are used according to their unique properties. Explore how materials are changed by chemical reactions, how important it is to recycle materials and discover some famous inventors whose visions have transformed the world we live in. Test your understanding with fun projects, such as making a chemical volcano. Inject some fun into STEAM topics, with these lively examinations of buildings, robots, computers, vehicles, materials and space! This bright, colourful new series aims to inspire children with a lifelong love of STEAM subjects.

This practical book answers common questions about materials by looking at evidence and demonstrating their properties through a range of carefully chosen experiments that can be done in the classroom or at home. It covers such questions as 'What are states of matter', 'How does heat get through materials', 'What happens when a solid dissolves' and 'What are chemical changes' It also includes questions for readers to investigate further on their own. Written by a highly experienced and acclaimed science writer, the book includes links to useful websites as well as glossary, index and list of further reading.