Best Selling Books by The Exploratorium

What makes your garden grow? Find out with author Mia Amato''s The Garden Explored. This book offers a basketful of tips on understanding everything from basic soil chemistry to the inner life of plants. With Mia Amato as your guide, discover the unexpected science of plants, soil, sun and seasons.

26 different and amazing science explorations. 8-11 yrs.

Activities that present a fun perspective on the subject of visual perception. 8-11 yrs.

Did you know that your kitchen is actually a secret laboratory where tons of crazy-cool science goes down every day? Or that your fridge is jam-packed with chemistry materials? Join the world-famous Exploratorium for 30+ delicious discoveries, including the science of food, cooking, baking, nutrition, and taste. The Exploratorium’s Exploring Kitchen Science is your hands-on guide to exploring all the tasty chemistry that goes on all around you—from burning a peanut to understand how calories work to making blinking rock candies with LEDs inside, from cooking up oobleck as a wild and wacky lesson in matter to making ice cream with dry ice! Watch Mentos and Diet Coke explode, Styrofoam shrink in a pressure cooker, and marshmallows duke it out. Make dyes from onionskins, tangy and yeasty sourdough bread, noodles of fruit, pickles a power source, and glow-in-the-dark Jello. Use cabbage juice as a pH indicator and salt and olive oil as a lava lamp. Whip up tasty treats while you explore all the unexpected science that’s going on inside your very own kitchen. Cook, mix and microwave your way through Exploring Kitchen Science and learn some cool stuff along the way.

Let science blow your mind with the Exploratorium! Take a good look around: The ho-hum spots you inhabit every day are actually secret laboratories full of fascinating and eye-popping wonder—from the instant you wake up to the time you nod off at night! Discover these awe-inspiring scientific playgrounds with Exploralab—the hands-on, action-packed activity guide from the world’s most beloved and fun-filled laboratory of all, the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Exploralab contains tons of way-cool tools of inquiry to help kids get in on the science fun, including: • a magnifier • reflective paper • fabric swatches • an erasable whiteboard • textured paper • a spinning disc • polarizing filters • colored acetate sheets • and glow-in-the-dark ink!

Presents over twenty experiments exploring energy transformations and how they affect the everyday world. The experiments are miniature versions of some the exhibits at the Exploratorium, San Francisco''s famed museum of science, art, and human perception.

Ever look at the sky and wonder what makes it so blue? Or watch shadows shrink and grow as the day goes on? Find out the answers to these questions (plus 38 more!) with a book that explores color and light. Shine a Light on Light Itself! From mesmerizing colored shadows to groovy glow-stick dissections, from totally cool laser play to DIY kaleidoscopic reflections, Exploring the Science of Light is a kid-friendly, hands-on discovery guide for investigating light, color, and optics. Brought to you by the world’s most beloved and fun-filled laboratory of all, the Exploratorium in San Francisco.

Bring the fun of a world-famous science museum into your own classroom or home! THE EXPLORATORIUM SCIENCE SNACKBOOK SERIES "Clear, concise, and visual--the best assortment of wonder- filled ideas I have seen. A must-have." --Paul Hewitt, author of Conceptual Physics "Almost as much fun as exploring the Exploratorium, which, of course, is a googolplex of fun." --Jearl Walker, author of The Flying Circus of Physics, with Answers Now you can do your own version of 23 Exploratorium experiments on force and motion. All you need is a little curiosity, a few simple materials . . . and this book. Each experiment is easy to do, fully illustrated, and loaded with advice, ideas, helpful hints, and electrifying discoveries. Build a pendulum that swings in intriguing patterns. Create a swirling, spiraling "tornado" of water. Through these and other projects in The Spinning Blackboard, you can learn the science behind the principles of force and motion. Also available in The Exploratorium Science Snackbook Series: The Cheshire Cat and Other Eye-Popping Experiments on How We See the World The Magic Wand and Other Bright Experiments on Light and Color The Cool Hot Rod and Other Electrifying Experiments on Energy and Matter

光って、いったい何だろう?どうして、色を感じるのだろう?光のさまざまな性質―偏光、干渉、反射、回折、屈折など―をユニークな実験を通して感じとろう。空中に画像が浮かんだり、ガラス棒が消えたり、水で火をつけたり...、光と色の不思議な実験は、教室だけでなくパーティーでも大活躍!本書で紹介する実験は、アメリカで最も有名な体験型科学博物館“エクスプロラトリウム”で展示されている実験装置のミニチュア版である。