Super science challenges

This fun-filled resource will help you discover how to answer these questions and more, and in the process, come up with your own great science projects. Janice Van Cleave's Super Science Challenges gives you the ideas and information you need to start experimenting in a range of topics from astronomy, biology, and chemistry to earth science and physics.

You can use these science challenges as jumping off points for science fairs or classroom projects, or just try them at home for fun. The book is designed to show you how to use science inquiry to solve an exciting challenge. Do you have what it takes to make an awesome balloon rocket? Can you figure out how to grow areal crystal with just a few household ingredients? Do you think you can design and build a solar cooker that really works?

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Subject(s)Science
Author(s)Janice VanCleave
Age11-14
Published2008
Published by
Shelf referenceA 507.8 VAN
ISN/ISBN9780471471837
Direct URLhttps://www.stem.org.uk/x8932

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