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Janice VanCleave's Teaching the Fun of Science (Science for Fun)

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I highly recommend this book to teachers. The experiments are easy and fun. The directions are easy and the materials are general items from around the house. I bought this book because I was doing a rock study for my grade three classroom. The first day, I did a demonstration experiment on the compression of rock over time. I used three pieces of bread (white, brown and rye)and stepped on them as the experiment said. My kids loved it and they understood the lesson! The next day, several of the kids had decided among themselves to bring one extra slice of bread and so, they had an impromptu lab during lunch time!

I used that lunchtime to write the lab up on chart paper and the kids were thrilled. I ended up doing a lab every morning and writing the lab up too. After a month, I had the kids write their own labs. It is invaluable to teach them a love of science and to impress on them the ease of technical lab-writing terms. Now, they pick the lab the day before or even try a variation of it to demonstrate in class. In order to demonstrate it though, they must write the lab before hand.

This is the best science book around. If you are a teacher in grades 2-6, it is invaluable.