Edmonton Science Fun Guide
Greater Vancouver Science Fun Guide
Lists key organizations in the Lower Mainland involved in science and nature activities,
from beekeeping to the symphony! This terrific resource guide puts you in touch with
groups offering science experiences. Places to go, clubs to join, as well as over 70
simple and fun hands-on activities you can try at home or in the classroom. Compiled by
Science World. 159 pages.
BOOK.028 $12.95
South Vancouver Island Earth Science Fun Guide
Kids and adults are guaranteed fun as they discover how science works in the world around
them. An excellent reference book for exploring earth science and nature in the south
Vancouver Island area. Full of useful information on earth science clubs and facilities on
south Vancouver Island, as well as where to go and what to do including caves,
earthquakes, fossils, glaciers, landslides, oceans, rocks and weather. Over 40 hands-on
activities. 135 pages.
BOOK.027 $12.95
Fossils, A Golden Guide
A Pocket guide to prehistoric life, 481 illustrations in colour. Life Past & Present,
Introduction to Fossils, Fossils for Amateurs, Invertebrates, Vertebrates, Plants. 160
pages.
BOOK.007 $7.95
each
Thomas Edison Book of Easy & Incredible Experiments
Activities, projects and science fun for all ages. These experiments require no science
background, but cover areas of magnetism, electricity, chemistry, physics, energy &
radioactivity. They utilize inexpensive, easy-to-obtain materials. Most youngsters and
teens can work on the experiments with little supervision, and there are ample ideas for
science fairs and "extra credit" projects. 146 pages.
BOOK.008 $23.95
each
Ben Franklin Book of Easy & Incredible Experiments
At a time when science was a mystery to most people, Ben Franklin performed incredible
experiments that revealed amazing facts about light, heat, sound, electricity, the
weather, and other aspects of the natural world. Using inexpensive, easy-to-find items,
you’ll discover how to: Build an optical toy shop, including a prism, kaleidoscope,
telescope & periscope. Make a weather station with a working barometer, hygrometer,
and other simple homemade meteorological instruments. Create an "orchestra" with
flutes, water chimes, maracas and a guitar you make yourself. Build your own printing
press & print documents on paper that you make in your own paper mill. 135 pages.
BOOK.039 $19.95
each
Science Experiments - Chemistry and Physics
Science activity book with reproducible pages for Grades 5 to 8+ students. Activities help
students practice and demonstrate laboratory skills, measurement, generating gases,
chromatography, pH indicators, solubility, compounds and mixtures, making soap, goop and
slime, specific heat and kinetic energy, electrical circuits, magnets, and more. 92
pages, includes answer keys and materials lists.
BOOK.043 $19.95 each
Mudpies to Magnets
A Pre-school Science Curriculum. Here are 112 ready-to-use science experiments for the
very young. Each provides direct, hands-on learning activities which young children can
experience themselves. Includes Science Centre Activities, Construction & Measurement,
Circle Time Activities, Scientific Art, Wet & Messy Science, Health & Nutrition,
Outdoor Science, etc. Ages 2 to 6 if teacher/parent demonstrates, ages 6 and up for
hands-on. 157 pages.
BOOK.009 $24.95
each
More Mudpies to Magnets
Science for Young Children. Develop basic science skills with these hands-on activities
that will capture the imagination of young children. Sections include: Colours, Crystals
and Creations (Chemistry Beginnings); How Things Work (First Physics); Digging in the Dirt
(Earth Explorations); How Hot, How Cold, How Windy, How Wet (Weather Watchers); Aerial
Acrobatics (Flight and Space); Roots and Shoots (All About Plants); Houses for
"Snugs", Hideouts for Hamsters (Animal Adventures); How Much, How Far, How Many
(Mathworks). Ages 2 to 8 if teacher/parent demonstrates, ages 8 and up if hands-on. 205
pages.
BOOK.016 $24.95
each
Digging Dinosaurs
The story of the search that unravelled the mystery of baby dinosaurs. An excellent
account of how palaeontology field work is conducted, and how the bones, nests, eggs and
babies of the "Good Mother Lizards" (Maiasaurs) were discovered in Montana in
the late 1970s and 1980s and excavated by famous palaeontologist John Horner. 210 pages,
suitable for ages 14 through adult.
BOOK.014 $9.95
each
The Teaching Tank Discovery Books
Each has 50 fun experiments utilizing the unique properties of The Teaching Tank (see item
TANK.01 in the "Containers" section of this catalogue) covering a variety of
topics including Life/ Earth/ Physical Sciences.
BOOK.010 Volume 1 $29.95 each
BOOK.026 Volume 2 $29.95 each
Magnetic Wand Discovery Guide
Written to go with our popular Magnetic Wand, item MGNT.02. Covers history and modern uses
of magnets, also has 15 experiments/games. 24 pages.
BOOK.015 $4.95
each
