This guide contains 50 hands-on science projects. It instructs on how to make an observation station, a nephoscope, a solar oven, wind chimes, a barometer, a solar clock, an astrolabe, a hot air balloon and a wind sock. Equipment needed includes spiders, toads, worms, wind, sun, water and light.
Gwen Diehn was born and raised in New Orleans, LA, and studied art at Indiana University at South Bend, The University of Notre Dame (MA), and Vermont College (MFA). She has exhibited her artwork internationally and has work in many private and public collections, including the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC. She has taught college art as well as workshops for many years. She has also written several books about art and also journal keeping and making. One of them, The Decorated Page, is being re-issued in a revised edition/bind-up with another one, The Decorated Journal, in spring, 2012. Her most recent book, Real Life Journals, was listed as one of the top 10 gardening and crafts books of 2010 by Booklist.
You can visit her blog at http://real-life-journals.blogspot.com.
