Engaging, easy-to-make projects provide a hands-on way for students to share what they have learned about key science topics.

Prompts are organized by the 10 months of the school year and many relate to holidays or anniversaries of famous events.

"Explore science in your own backyard with these quick, fun outdoor science projects."--

Are you ready to wow your friends, confound your family, and perplex your pets? Then grab your goggles and lab coat, and strap in for a wild ride. This book is jam-packed with mind-expandingly awesome SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS! Discover... * how to make eggs bounce and bones bend * how to make secret messages using just a ... lemon?! * how to bend light with water * how to create your own eye-opening optical illusions Every experiment is set out in clear, step-by-step instructions and illustrated with hilarious cartoon artworks. You'll gasp, you'll laugh ... and if you're not ever so careful, you might even learn some science! Fantastic fun for readers aged 7+.

This book contains strategies, activities, ideas, recommendations, and sample author studies designed to help you and your students in launching author studies of your own.

Discusses various assessment tools applicable to grades K-6, including self-evaluation, reading-response notebooks, and portfolio creation.

Details fifty-five experiments ranging from simply making ice that sinks to copper plating iPods and building spark plugs.