Janice Vancleave's Earth Science for Every Kid: 101 Easy Experiments That Really Work

Although this book was published in 1993 (ancient for many science texts!), its experiments are highly relevant, interesting, and fun. I use them in my science classroom, and everyone finds them very easy to understand and complete. It's not like biology; earth science didn't completely evolve in the last 15 years.

I purchased this book as a christmas present from my son's Earth Science teacher this year. She loved it! The teacher said, "Oh my gosh, I was able to open it to any page and easily pick out an engaging idea for my students to observe. Thank you. This is one of the best Christmas gifts I've ever received from a student."

This book is wonderful. It gives you the experiments and provides explanations for the results. I have five and six year old sons and they love the experiments from this book. I'm buying it after renewing it at the library several times.

I am never disappointed by a Janice VanCleave Book!This book lends itself well to experimenting with earth science using the scientific method. It outlines the purpose, materials needed, procedure, results expected, and explanation of results for each experiment. Experiments are included in the areas of space, rocks and minerals, movement of the earth's crust, erosion, atmosphere, weather, and ocean. The best thing is that they use common, easy to obtain materials!I use these books in my classroom a lot!