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Help Your Kids with Science: A Unique Step-by-Step Visual Guide [Pehme köide]

  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 256 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 233x197x18 mm, kaal: 808 g
  • Sari: DK Help Your Kids
  • Ilmumisaeg: 21-May-2012
  • Kirjastus: Dorling Kindersley
  • ISBN-10: 0756692687
  • ISBN-13: 9780756692681
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 256 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 233x197x18 mm, kaal: 808 g
  • Sari: DK Help Your Kids
  • Ilmumisaeg: 21-May-2012
  • Kirjastus: Dorling Kindersley
  • ISBN-10: 0756692687
  • ISBN-13: 9780756692681
A guide to teaching science to children provides jargon-free definitions and illustrates concepts from three core subjects--biology, chemistry, and physics.

Following the success of Help Your Kids with Math, Help Your Kids with Science is a comprehensive and stress-free approach to science.

With clear graphics, instantly understandable diagrams, and welcoming, jargon-free text — covering all the important areas of biology, chemistry and physics — Help Your Kids with Science is a great resource for children and adults to learn even the most complex science problems with confidence.

Whether it's working with the Periodic Table, the threes laws of motion, or trying to explain polarity and magnetic fields, Help Your Kids with Science is a great resource for parents.

Help Your Kids with Science also includes a glossary of key science terms and symbols.

Introduction 6(4)
Mike Goldsmith
What Is Science? 10(2)
The Scientific Method 12(2)
Fields Of Science 14(4)
1 Biology
What is biology?
18(2)
Variety of life
20(2)
Cell structure
22(2)
Cells at work
24(2)
Fungi and single-celled life
26(2)
Respiration
28(2)
Photosynthesis
30(2)
Feeding
32(2)
Waste materials
34(2)
Transport systems
36(2)
Movement
38(2)
Sensitivity
40(2)
Reproduction I
42(2)
Reproduction II
44(2)
Life cycles
46(2)
Hormones
48(2)
Disease and immunity
50(2)
Animal relationships
52(2)
Plants
54(2)
Invertebrates,
56(2)
Fish, amphibians, and, reptiles
58(2)
Mammals and birds
60(2)
Body systems
62(2)
Human senses
64(2)
Human digestion
66(2)
Brain and heart
68(2)
Human health
70(2)
Human reproduction
72(2)
Ecosystems
74(2)
Food chains
76(2)
Cycles in nature
78(2)
Evolution
80(2)
Adaptations
82(2)
Genetics I
84(2)
Genetics II
86(2)
Pollution
88(2)
Human impact
90(4)
2 Chemistry
What is chemistry?
94(2)
Properties of materials
96(2)
States of matter
98(2)
Changing states
100(2)
Gas laws
102(2)
Mixtures
104(2)
Separating mixtures
106(2)
Elements and atoms
108(2)
Compounds and molecules
110(2)
Ionic bonding
112(2)
Covalent bonding
114(2)
Periodic table
116(2)
Understanding the periodic table
118(2)
Alkali metals and alkali earth metals
120(2)
The halogens and noble gases
122(2)
Transition metals
124(2)
Radioactivity
126(2)
Chemical reactions
128(2)
Combustion
130(2)
Redox reactions
132(2)
Energy and reactions
134(2)
Rates of reaction
136(2)
Catalysts
138(2)
Reversible reactions
140(2)
Water
142(2)
Acids and bases
144(2)
Acid reactions
146(2)
Electrochemistry
148(2)
Lab equipment and techniques
150(2)
Refining metals
152(2)
Chemical industry
154(2)
Carbon and fossil fuels
156(2)
Hydrocarbons
158(2)
Functional groups
160(2)
Polymers and plastics
162(4)
3 Physics
What is physics?
166(2)
Inside atoms
168(2)
Energy
170(2)
Forces and mass
172(2)
Stretching and deforming
174(2)
Velocity and acceleration
176(2)
Gravity
178(2)
Newton's laws of motion
180(2)
Understanding motion
182(2)
Pressure
184(2)
Machines
186(2)
Heat transfer
188(2)
Using heat
190(2)
Waves
192(2)
Electromagnetic waves
194(2)
Light
196(2)
Optics
198(2)
Sound
200(2)
Electricity
202(2)
Current, voltage, and resistance
204(2)
Circuits
206(2)
Electronics
208(2)
Magnets
210(2)
Electric motors
212(2)
Electricity generators
214(2)
Transformers
216(2)
Power generation
218(2)
Electricity supplies
220(2)
Energy efficiency
222(2)
Renewable energy
224(2)
The Earth
226(2)
Weather
228(2)
Astronomy
230(2)
The Sun
232(2)
The Solar System I
234(2)
The Solar System II
236(2)
Stars and galaxies
238(2)
Origins of the Universe
240(2)
Reference Biology 242(2)
Reference Chemistry 244(2)
Reference Physics 246(2)
Glossary 248(4)
Index 252(4)
Acknowledgments 256