Introducing a new series, Janice VanCleave shows students aged 12 and over how to devise and produce challenging scientific experiments without using complicated and expensive equipment. Featuring 30 ideas for experiments - from studying weather by creating clouds in a soda bottle to exploring physiology by measuring the respiration of common house plants - she provides detailed background information and definitions for each investigation Once the experiment is completed, students are encouraged to probe deeper by asking questions, creating additional experiments and developing their own theories and conclusions. The topics probed include botany, zoology, physiology, cell division, photosynthesis, ecology, nutrition and more
- ISBN10 0471586293
- ISBN13 9780471586296
- Publish Date 6 August 1993
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 16 January 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English