Exploralab Exploratorium Museum From the (Author)
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For more than thirty years, kids have loved visiting the Exploratorium, and for good reason: Its hands-on science explorations are incredibly fun—and educational to boot. Now all the action is captured in Exploralab, a book that reinvents the museum’s exhibits and activities to teach readers about the scientific wonder all around them.Exploralab opens the way every day does: With the instant we open our eyes. It then treats this moment as a “laboratory,” offering fascinating, fun activities that explore the forces at work around us—the science behind the sunlight that hits our eyelids, for instance, or the sound of the alarm clock that rouses us from slumber. Readers then embark on a journey through a typical day in the life of most kids—from walking down the sidewalk to riding the bus, from sitting in class to hanging out in the park—all while encountering and engaging many scientific principles along the way. But that’s not all: Most of the book’s “laboratories” contain special gizmos—such as mirrored inserts, spinning discs, polarized filters, and more—that help readers play with optics, physics, chemistry, earth science, astronomy, social behavior, and more. And a removable magnifying glass on the cover empowers kids with a tool of discovery that they can use inside the book and out. Table of Contents Prelims Introduction How to Use This Book Pack A Portable Lab Document Your Discoveries About the Museum Lab # 01: Open Your Eyes Sunrise in Your Eyes Clock Take-apart Ghosts Get in Your Eyes The Sandman’s Presents Morning Monster Breath Phantasgamoric Phosphenes Throw a Yawn Party Lend Your Ears a Hand Squawk, Chirp, Tweet, Croak! Lab # 02: Who’s That in the Mirror? How Do You Look to Other People? The Kid with Kaleidoscope Eyes The Goo Inside You The Goo That Makes You You The Best Disguise Ever Conjuring with Combs Why Does the Floor Feel Cold When the Towel Feels Warm? Static Magic The Scoop on Poop The Asparagus Aroma Which Way Do the Toilets Go? Birds Do It, Bees Do It… Bubble-o-Rama Behemoth Bubbles Hair Dryer Gravity Defier Lab # 03: Time for Pants Tactile Ants in Your Pants Harmonies in Your Head The Tiny Pants Challenge! Dance with Your Sweater Lab # 04: Eat Your Breakfast The Juice-Tasting Challenge Got a Genius Tongue? Slice a Straw with Water The Big Eggshell Breakdown Fruit Salad Surprise Color Drops Derby Spin Your Teacup Lab # 05: The Street Underneath Your Feet Walk in the Shadows The Rad Shadow Sketch That’s the Way the Sidewalk Crumbles Science Meets Art: Andy Goldsworthy Race along on Square Wheels Create a Stride Ruler The Colossal Cookie-Tin Race Lab # 06: Classroom Hijinx The Dizzying Desk Chair Demo Stack It Up Chop Up Your Memories Secret Agent Kid Make a Fake Memory Shake Up a Sentence Salad Modern Memory Devices Twist Your Brain with a Mobius Band Little Paper, Great Big You The Exponential Paper Fold Math, Math Everywhere Lab # 07: Recess Fun with Friends Bounce a Water Balloon The Pendulum Swing Drop It! As Heavy as Air It’s All at Your Fingertips Put on Your Game Pace Check Your Balance What’s in a Baseball? Pitch a Polar Baseball Play Pirate Ball Lab # 08: Gaze Out the Window Phenomenal Polarized Phun Spin Your Sunglasses Chase the Sun Warp Light with Water That’s Just the Way It Flows Itty-Bitty Lightning Bolts Make the Thunder Roar Create a Cloud Chamber Mini Grid of Clouds Where Does the Wind Go? Guess the Wind’s Speed Bottle a Whirlpool Lab # 09: That Big Patch of Grass Tear Up a Tulip Get the Dirt on Dirt Loop-the-Loop with a Hoopster Spot Curious Specks in the Sky The Size-and-Distance Illusion Why the Ants Go Marching How Cute Is That? Science Meets Art: Nina Katchadourian Buzz Like a Bee Arith-Ma-Stick A Bazillion Blades of Grass Lab # 10: Riding Downtown Phenakistoscope & Persistence of Vision Marvelous Mysterious Motionmobiles The Road Barf Remedy Gears experiment with tin cans Build a Tiny Skyline The Slinky Shake Quake Transparent and Reflective Craft a Catenary Arch Screamin’ Sirens Crosswalk Your Eyes Chase Color in the Gutter Scramble the Skyline Many, Many Maps Lab # 11: Take a Walk by the Lake Why Water’s Wet How Waves Behave Where Did Water Come From? The Waterfall Effect Try a Tide Spinner Tiptoe through the Tide Pools Is the Coast Clear? The Bug Reporter’s Notebook Lab # 12: Time With Friends Three-Do It! The Three Little Pig(ments) The Coin Conundrum Draw Your Own Illusions The Optical Oddity Race Make a Miniature Roller Coaster Tear Down Your Toys! The Rodobug Lab # 13: Dinnertime/Family Bake Fake Cupcakes Size It Up Stand on Your Head in a Spoon Wok Talk Bottle Boogie Your Dear Old Mum Cooking Science Scrape Up a Scrap Garden Incredible Edible Bugs Feed Me! What Lurks Behind the Can? Lab #14: Nightsky The Lightbulb Puzzle The Six-Legged Thermometer Glimpse the Green Flash Hunt Down the Full Moon Play Lunar Ping-Pong The Man (or the Frog or the Crab?) in the Moon Ninja Vision Chart Your Course to the Stars Spy on Satellites Trick Out a Telescope Rig a Rocketship That Jerk Keeping You Awake Midnight Rambles and Babbles Sleep Yourself Smart Snoring for Survival
- Rank: #836008 in Books
- Published on: 2013-09-24
- Released on: 2013-09-24
- Original language:
English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 128 pages
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