Candlewick Press

Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman: Ruff Ruffman's 44 Favorite Science Activities Candlewick Press

Marc Notes: For school or home--Cover.; PBS kids--Cover.; Launch a marshmallow catapult. Decode invisible ink. Get ready to get your paws dirty tackling feats of chemistry, physics, and engineering with Ruff Ruffman's 44 favorite science activities. Need a project for school? No problem!--Page 4 of cover. Review Quotes: An entertaining yet solid STEM resource.--BooklistPublisher Marketing: Delve into dozens of entertaining, offbeat science projects with amusing commentary from Ruff Ruffman, the lovable host of FETCH! Families and teachers looking for a fun way to add science to kids' agendas need look no further. This full-color book of Ruff Ruffman's all-time favorite activities offers a chance to try real science at home, with special tips for turning the activities into science-fair projects. Ruff simplifies the scientific method for kids and shares basic setup and safety procedures for creating a laboratory and keeping a lab notebook. From there, it's on to step-by-step directions for forty-four fun, interactive activities using household items. Icons indicate difficulty levels as well as activities that require grown-up help, while a topical index allows readers to search by subject matter. Triple-dog-dare junior scientists to try them all! Review Citations: Booklist 04/01/2015 pg. 36 (EAN 9780763674328, Paperback)