The study of electricity and magnetic forces is part of what children study in science during Key Stage Two. Hands-On Science: Electricity and Magnets is a colourful, detailed and safe book that contains more than 40 experiments to reinforce your child's learning. It contains many diagrams and detailed instructions, as well as a small number of colour photographs. Suitable for ages 8 and above. -- Amanda York

 

This book is part of a book series called Hands On Science .

This book is aimed at children in primary school.

There are 40 pages in this book. This book was published 2001 by Pan Macmillan .

Sarah Angliss is a freelance science writer, editor and researcher with over five year's experience of communicating science and technology to children.

This book has the following chapters: 1 TITLE 2-3 COPYRIGHT AND CONTENTS 4-5 INTRODUCTION AND SAFETY TIPS 6-7 CREATING STATIC 8-9 STATIC ATTRACTION AND REPULSION 10-11 SIMPLE CIRCUITS AND SWITCHES 12-13 CIRCUIT GAMES AND SHORT CIRCUITS 14-15 CONDUCTORS AND INSULATORS 16-17 RESISTANCE 18-19 SERIES CIRCUITS, DIMMER SWITCHES 20-21 PARALLEL CIRCUITS 22-23 ELECTRICITY IN COMPUTERS, ELECTRONICS 24-25 WHAT IS MAGNETISM? 26-27 ATTRACTION AND REPULSION EXPERIMENTS 28-29 COMPASSES 30-31 MAGNETIC FIELDS 32-33 MAKE YOUR OWN MAGNETS 34-35 THE POWER OF MAGNETISM 36-37 ELECTROMAGNETS 38-39 GLOSSARY 40 INDEX