These simple, fun experiments in magnetism and electricity will get kids all charged up. Test out a kitchen magnet and watch what it attracts; "light the light" with a fluorescent bulb and a piece of wool; "see" invisible magnetic fields and find the strongest part of the magnet; make your TV screen snap, crackle and pop and transmit Morse code with a station you build yourself. Almost all materials are easy to find in the house or inexpensive to buy and each experiment has a section that explains the underlying scientific principles plus, they're all safe!

 

This book is part of a book series called Awesome Experiments in .

There are 160 pages in this book. This book was published 2006 by Sterling Juvenile .

Michael A. DiSpezio conducts workshops for teachers throughout the world. He has co-authored more than two dozen science textbooks and has worked for clients such as the Discovery Channel and MTV. Rob DeSalle is a curator in the Sackler Institute of Comparative Genomics at the American Museum of Natural History. He works on molecular evolution, conservation genetics and evolutionary genomics of a wide array of life forms ranging from plants to all kinds of insects, reptiles and mammals.