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Get ready to make soda shooters, bobbing blobs, and foaming fountains. With just a few household items, you can create these science experiments and more. You'll also find out what causes these projects to fizz and bubble. Science has never been this much fun!

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9781429654258

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This is a series that encourages students to discover the underlying principle for specific chemical interactions using common household ingredients. Topics such as Dancing Raisins, Electric Lemons, Soda Shooter, and Bobbing Blobs will intrigue middle school children. Readers are able to easily reproduce these experiments, occasionally requiring assistance from an adult. Colorful photographs demonstrating the procedure and a list of ingredients accompany each project. The books conclude with recommended websites and books as well as a glossary of scientific terms. This series would be a worthwhile purchase for a school library in order to supplement a science curriculum. Recommended.-- Library Media Connection

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Jodi Wheeler-Toppen is a former science teacher with a PhD in science education. She has been fascinated by insects for years, and even raised dung beetles in her classroom! Jodi is the author of a number of science books for children and teachers. Her activity book Science Experiments that Explode and Implode was a Junior Library Guild Selection in 2011. Jodi lives in Atlanta with her family.

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