Bet You Can!: Science Possibilities to Fool You [Hardcover]

Vicki Cobb (Author), Kathy Darling (Author), Stella Ormai (Illustrator)

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Publication Date: September 1990

Describes more than sixty tricks based on scientific experiments featured in the text.

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Vicki Cobb is a pro at explaining the cohesive and adhesive properties of water. but she can never seem to remember that plants like water too! She finally had to decorate her home with artificial plants to keep from killing the live ones.

Ever since Science Experiments You Can Eat, Vicki Cobb has been delighting children, parents, and teachers with the fun of making science discoveries. Now, with the new Science Play series, she sets her sights on the youngest children. who are natural scientists and are always experimenting. Vicki Cobb and her husband divide their time between their homes in White Plains, New York. and Manchester, Vermont. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 112 pages
• Publisher: Lothrop Lee & Shepard; 1st hardcover ed edition (September 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0688098657
• ISBN-13: 978-0688098650
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,441,182 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars G Ma, February 23, 2012

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This review is from: Bet You Can!: Science Possibilities to Fool You (Hardcover)

Loads of fun! Lots of simple challenges that are easy to set up and really get the students to thinking why they can!

4.0 out of 5 stars Things we learn..., April 25, 2009

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This review is from: Bet You Can! Science Possibilities to Fool You (Paperback)

This was purchased as part of a birthday gift for my nephew, whose interest in the sciences is "not so much". Hopefully success with these will result in a bit of curiosity, which is the first step in learning.

4.0 out of 5 stars I bet you can have fun with these experiments!, March 31, 2000

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This review is from: Bet You Can! Science Possibilities to Fool You (Paperback)

I tend to prefer Bet You Can't myself (probably because tryingfind the way an experiment CAN be done presents a challenge, untilgiving in to the fact that is impossible), but this book is good too. This would be a useful book for elementary school teachers; students can learn some science and have fun at the same time. Of course, I don't mean to imply that only children can enjoy these activities! By the way, see the picture of the spoon on the nose? That doesn't necessarily work; don't place your bets on that activity. Most of them seem to work, though.