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Yikes! Wow! Yuck! Fun Experiments for Your First Science Fair

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Science fair experiments can be a lot of fun, but if you've never actually done an experiment, except for perhaps a classroom one with your friends, this book might be a great help to you. There are several steps you need to be aware of even before you set up your experiment at a fair. This book tells you what a science fair experiment is, how to choose an experiment, how to research it and how to develop a hypothesis. Warning, warning, warning! Even before you begin you will have to take a look at the safety instructions you will need to follow for each and every experiment you try.

For the actual experiment in this book you need to first learn about the construction, or experiment design (the independent variable, the dependent variable and the controls), the procedure, how to record your data and how to draw a conclusion. This book has a very comprehensive section on preparing for the fair and discusses everything from writing the report, making graphs, putting your display together and talking to the judges. There are twenty-four spectacular experiments in this book. Have you ever seen the YouTube video where the guys make an awesome Diet Coke and Mentos fountain? The Exploding Soda experiment is in here!

This science experiment book wasn't just slapped together. It is very thorough and each experiment has step by step instructions. There is a listed of needed ingredients and a conclusion. Then the author then asks the student to think more about the experiment by asking more questions and suggesting reasons for varying results. This book is illustrated, but the individual steps are not visual (the student will need to read carefully). In the back of the book there are a glossary and an index. This is a very popular book and I'm sure once kids see the Exploding Soda experiment in the table of contents . . . well, let's just say that even if you're not going to have a science fair, you can still have a yikes, wow, yuk experience experimenting at home!

The 3rd grade students in my class found this book very useful. Since there was only one at the city library, it is nice to have one of my own for science experiment ideas to pass out to the children.