Explore gravity! : with 25 great projects / Cindy Blobaum ; illustrated by Bryan Stone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blobaum, Cindy, 1966-

Contributor:

Stone, Bryan, illustrator.

Series:

Explore your world! (White River Junction, Vt.)

Explore your world!

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gravity--Juvenile literature.

Gravity--Experiments--Juvenile literature.

Gravity--Study and teaching (Elementary)--Activity programs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (97 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

White River Junction, VT : Nomad Press, [2013]

Summary:

With 25 hands-on activities that include connections to toys, sports, and everyday items such as scales, elevators, and water towers, this project book helps young scientists explore the invisible but powerful force that is responsible for keeping the universe in place. By creating a working model of a scale, readers will learn what weight really means and how it is affected by gravity. By playing with various weights to make a marvelous mobile, readers learn about center of balance and how martial artists use this knowledge to throw their weigh

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Timeline; Introduction; Chapter 1: Getting to Know Gravity; Chapter 2: Gravity Basics: Matter and Mass; Chapter 3: Discovering Gravity; Chapter 4: Gravity in Space; Chapter 5: Putting Gravity to Work; Chapter 6: Great Gravity Tricks; Glossary; Resources; Index; Back Cover

Notes:

Subtitle from cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 9, 2013).

ISBN:

1-61930-205-5

1-61930-204-7

OCLC:

861480384