Science in seconds for kids : over 100 experiments and activities you can do in ten minutes or less

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction
	How This Book Is Organized
	Tips for Completing the Activities
Air
	Dry Paper: Can Paper Stay Dry in Water?
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	Elastic Air: Why Does a Balloon Filled with Air Bounce?
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	Air Rocket: What Happens to Air When You Squeeze It?
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	Air Push: Air Pressure Is All Around Us
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	Air Support: How Does the Shape of an Object Affect How It Falls Through the Air?
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	Bottle Balloon: What Happens to Air When It Is Heated and Cooled?
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	Book Lift: Can Air Lift Heavy Objects?
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	Lifting Things with No Hands: How Can Air Lift Planes?
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	Dusty Air: What Is in the Air?
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Living Things
	Whopping Hoppers: How Far Can Grasshoppers Hop?
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	Smart Skin: How Do Earthworms Stay So Clean?
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	Break an Egg: Why Can’t You Break an Egg by Squeezing?
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	Egg Shape: Why Aren’t Eggs Perfectly Round?
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	Seeing Without Eyes: Can You See with Your Fingertips?
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	Bendy Trees: How Do Tree Rings Help Trees Not Break?
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	Tree Curves: Why Are Tree Trunks Curved at the Bottom?
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	Slow Fly: What Happens to a Fly in Cold Weather?
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	Fish Skeleton: What Does the Skeleton of a Fish Do?
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Colors
	Waves of Color: How Can You Visualize Light Waves?
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	Water Rainbow: How Do Water and Sunlight Create a Rainbow?
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	Secondary Colors: How Are Colors Made on Electronic Screens?
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	New Mix: What Happens When You Look Through Two Colors at Once?
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	Balloon Stretch: Why Does the Color of a Balloon Become Lighter When Air Is Blown into It?
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	Hot Colors: How Do Colors Relate to Heat?
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	Color Dyes: How Do Fabrics Respond to Different Dye Strengths?
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	Spinning Colors: How Does the Eye See Colors That Are Moving Very Rapidly?
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	Chromatography: Can Colors Be Separated After They Have Been Mixed?
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Energy
	Marshmallow Launcher: How Does Energy from a Balloon Launch Marshmallows?
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	Hot Hand: How Does Friction Create Heat?
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	Hot Ice: How Does Pressure Affect Energy?
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	Spicy Music: How Does Energy Create Sound?
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	Sun Burst: How Powerful Is the Sun’s Heat?
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	Button Spinner: How Can Energy Be Changed from One Form to Another?
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	Wind Spin: How Can the Wind Produce Energy?
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	Easy Electromagnet: How Can You Make a Magnet with Electricity?
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	Raisin Raising: How Can the Energy in Chemicals Produce Movement?
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Gravity
	Balancing Act: What Is an Object’s Center of Gravity?
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	Penny Balloon: How Can You Change the Center of Gravity of an Object?
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	Book Balance: How Can You Make a Stack of Books Lean Without Falling Over?
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	Gravity Balance: How Can You Make a Yardstick Balance at Different Points?
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	Pendulum Plus: Does the Weight of a Pendulum Affect the Timing of the Swing?
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	Paper Plunge: Does Shape Influence Gravity?
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	Gravity Pull: Why Don’t Liquids Flow at the Same Rate?
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The Human Body
	Pulse Watch: How Can You Tell Your Heart Is Beating?
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	Pulse Change: How Does Your Heart Know When to Speed Up?
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	Heart Sounds: How Can You Hear Your Heart?
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	Muscle Bound: How Do Muscles Work?
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	Bone Brilliance: How Do Bones Know How to Change?
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	Eye Light: How Do You See in the Dark?
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	Weird Wonder: What Happens If You Stare at One Color for a Long Time?
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	Crying Eyes: Why Do Onions Make You Weep?
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	Old Shoes: Why Do Shoes Wear Out in Different Places?
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	All Together Now: How Closely Related Are We to Other Creatures?
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Light
	Tiny Mirror: How Does a Spoon Reflect Images?
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	Bending Straws: What Happens to Light When It Travels Through Water?
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	Light Beams: Why Does Light Make the Sky Look Blue?
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	Stick Mirror: Can You See Around Corners?
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	Easy Kaleidoscope: How Can Reflections Be Multiplied to Make Interesting Geometric Shapes?
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	Infinite Mirrors: Does Light Go On Forever?
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	Comb Beams: How Do the Angles of the Sun’s Rays Affect Their Strength?
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	Moon Phases: How Does the Sun Create the Patterns of Light Reflections We See on the Moon?
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Machines
	Lever Lift: How Can a Lever Help Lift Objects?
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	Easy Move: How Can Wheels Be Used to Decrease Friction?
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	Sinking Submarine: How Does a Submarine Float and Sink?
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	Simple Siphon: How Does a Siphon Work?
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	Sand Clock: How Can You Make a Simple Clock?
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	Turning Time: How Do Gears Work?
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	Pulling Pulleys: How Can You Use Pulleys to Move Objects Across a Room?
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	Pull Ups: How Can a Pulley Help Lift Objects?
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	Ramp Marbles: How Can Ramps Make Lifting Easier?
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Magnetism
	Making Moves: How Do the Ends of Magnets Affect Each Other?
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	Force Fields: What Do Magnetic Forces Look Like?
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	Flying Paper Clip: How Can You Make a Paper Clip Levitate?
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	New Magnet: How Can You Make a Magnet?
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	Homemade Compass: How Can You Make a Compass?
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	Wrong Readings: Does a Compass Always Give the Correct Direction?
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	Magnet Strength: Which Is More Powerful, a Bar Magnet or a Horseshoe Magnet?
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	Magnet Chain: How Can Objects Become Temporarily Magnetized?
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	Magnetic Breakfast: What Can a Magnet Find in Cereal?
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Magnification
	Water Magnifier: Where Did the Idea of Magnification Come From?
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	Comb Rays: How Does a Magnifying Lens Affect Light Rays?
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	Magnifying Measurement: How Does the Distance of an Object from a Lens Affect the Object’s Magnification?
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	Double Convex: How Does a Double Convex Lens Work?
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	Word Flip: How Can You Make Words Turn Upside Down?
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	Round Works: Why Must a Magnifying Lens Always Be Round?
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	Shadow Look: How Does a Magnifying Lens Affect Shadows?
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	Eyeglass Lenses: How Do Eyeglasses Help People See Better?
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	Telescope Image: How Does a Telescope Work?
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Water
	Sticky Water: Can You Pick Stuff Up with Water?
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	Water Skin: Why Does Water Form a Surface?
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	Circle Thread: How Can You Change Surface Tension?
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	Water Vapor: What Causes Water to Collect on the Outside of a Cold Glass?
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	Window Fog: Does Your Breath Contain Water?
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	Breathing Dirt: Does Water Ever Fall Up?
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	Sinking Ship: How Does a Boat Float?
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	Leakproof: Can You Puncture a Bag of Water and Have Nothing Leak Out?
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	Level Look: Why Does Water Form a Level Surface?
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Weather
	Wind Sail: How Does the Sun Affect Air?
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	Wind Direction: How Can You Instantly Tell Which Direction the Wind Is Coming From?
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	Wind Wheel: How Can You Tell How Fast the Wind Is Blowing?
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	Wind Chill: How Does Wind Affect Temperature?
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	Dew Point: When Will Dew Form on the Grass?
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	Create Lightning: Where Does Lightning Come From?
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	Thunder Wonder: Why Does Thunder Arrive After Lightning?
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	No Pressure: How Does a Barometer Help Predict the Weather?
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	Cricket Thermometer: How Can Animals Forecast Weather Conditions?
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Glossary
Further Reading
Index
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