Physical Science
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Caring for Nature - A Help the Environment book
Concrete ways for children to care for the natural world. Simple text and engaging photos of children and their families taking small conservation actions make big conservation ideas accessible to beginning readers. Learn More -
Cleaning Up Litter - A Help the Environment book
Concrete ideas children can use to “clean up” the world. Simple text and engaging photos of children taking small conservation actions make big conservation ideas accessible to beginning readers. Learn More -
Reusing and Recycling - A Help the Environment book
Great hands-on ways for children to re-use and recycle! Simple text and engaging photos of children and families taking small conservation actions make big conservation ideas accessible to beginning readers. Learn More -
Saving Energy - A Help the Environment book
Great book for understanding energy and how to save it! Simple text and engaging photos of children and families taking small conservation actions make big conservation ideas accessible to beginning readers. Learn More -
Saving Water - A Help the Environment book
Concrete ways for children to save water and reasons for conserving. Simple text and engaging photos of children taking small conservation actions make big conservation ideas accessible to beginning readers. Learn More -
Energy Makes Things Happen - Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science Stage 2 book
Pique your children’s interest in energy and how it works! Key concepts: energy comes from the sun, how it is transferred, how energy and fuel are related, the difference between stored and moving energy. Paperback, 34 pages. Learn More -
Wired - A book about electricity
Children will practically feel the energy crackling as they follow the electrons from power plant to light bulb. Elementary-age children will be enthralled by detailed explanations of the electrical transmission system. 32 pages. Learn More -
Basic Rock Collection - Igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rock samples
Igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks are represented here with six samples each. Attached to cardboard, this set makes a perfect control card or handy reference. Includes information on rocks, minerals, and their three types. Learn More -
Special Properties Rock Collection - From Fossilicious.com
Like early humans, your children will discover that rocks can be useful! This set includes: pumice (the rock that floats), optical calcite (look through it to see a double image), and magnetite (naturally magnetic). Description cards outline historical use and properties of each. Learn More -
Rock & Mineral - Field Test Kit
A hands-on rock and mineral classification activity. Children will explore the properties that geologists use to help them identify rocks and minerals (hardness, effervescence, streak color, magnetism, and appearance). Learn More -
Physical & Chemical Changes - From In-Print For Children
Whether living or non-living, everything experiences change. Learning to distinguish between physical and chemical changes is an important step for further exploration of chemistry. Children sort the picture cards under labels that clearly define physical and chemical changes. Learn More -
What's Smaller Than a Pygmy Shrew?
The perfect companion for a new microscope! A clever introduction with curiosity-tickling prose and accurate science. Children compare the very small with something ever smaller, right down to electrons. Learn More -
What is the World Made of? - All About Solids, Liquids, and Gases
Let's-Read-And-Find-Out Science Stage 2A fun and engaging follow-up to hands-on experience, this book about states of matter has a humorous touch that older children will enjoy. Engaging experiments and hands-on activities throughout. Paperback, 32 pages. Learn More -
Tabletop Pendulum
Sure to inspire reflection and calm, this is an entrancing addition to your quiet corner. A gentle touch starts the pendulum. Circles and ovals in the sand narrow to squares and rectangles, then one straight line. Cherry finish. Assembled pendulum stands 12½" high; base is 7". Learn More -
Water & Sand Wheel - A simple hands-on science machine
Children exercise their pouring skills as they observe how different pouring speeds alter the speed of this sturdy, working water wheel. Great addition to your hands-on physics program. Suitable for sand. Plastic; 5" base x 10" high. Learn More -
Water Pump
Children far too young to pronounce “vacuum displacement” will nonetheless know all about it after moving water with this durable pump. A real, working machine with a clear tube that shows the pump mechanisms. Learn More
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