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Mind-Boggling Experiments You Can Turn Into Science Fair Projects
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Janice VanCleave's Solar System
- How is a comet like a dirty snowball?
- Does a planets distance from the Sun affect its temperature?
- How can the Moon block the Suns light?
Figure out the answers for yourself with out-of-this world activities and experiments that help you learn about the wonders of the solar system. Janice VanCleaves Solar System: Mind-Boggling Experiments You Can Turn into Science Fair Projects guarantees hours and hours of fascinating, hands-on, safe, low-cost science fun. Try these awesome projects at home or in the classroom: trace the Earths path through the celestial sphere, create a comet in your own bedroom, and build a model of Saturn and its rings. Each experiment includes an illustration and simple, step-by-step instructions, as well as clear explanations of the astronomical concepts youre seeing at work.
Children ages 812
Also available in the Spectacular Science Projects Series:
Janice VanCleaves Animals
Janice VanCleaves Earthquakes
Janice VanCleaves Electricity
Janice VanCleaves Gravity
Janice VanCleaves Insects and Spiders
Janice VanCleaves Machines
Janice VanCleaves Magnets
Janice VanCleaves Microscopes and Magnifying Lenses
Janice VanCleaves Molecules
Janice VanCleaves Plants
Janice VanCleaves Rocks and Minerals
Janice VanCleaves Volcanoes
Janice VanCleaves Weather
About the Author
JANICE VANCLEAVE is a former science teacher and the award-winning author of more than 40 children's science books with sales totaling over a million copies. She has traveled far and wide to find easy and fun experiments.
Table of Contents
Line Up.
Opposite.
Bong!
Moon Mapping.
Shadows.
Earth Shadows.
Around and Around.
Twirlers.
Brighter.
More or Less.
How Hot?
See-Through.
Big and Bigger.
Backward.
Blinding.
Ringed.
Space Rocks.
Dirty Snowballs.
Shooting Stars.
Splat!
Appendix.
Glossary.
Index.