100 Award-Winning Science Fair ProjectsScience is at work everywhere - in the kitchen, up in the sky down in the ground, and all around us in plants, animals, machines, even the mind. Here are 100 ways to show how it works and come out tops at school project time. - Stir up chemical magic - Turn a copper pot green with oxidation - Prove that computers emit radio waves - Show off medieval ballistics - - Create virtual 3-D with a polarised lens - Simulate rock abrasion - - Chemists & Cooks - Earth & Sky - Mechanics & Motion - Sparks & Waves - - Light & Sound - Eye & Mind - Plants & Animals - Stars & Planets - * Serious learning about real science is hidden in this away-from-school entertainment for 8-12 year olds. Impress your science teacher! |
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Glen Vecchione. Earth & Sky Plot Spherical Distance on a Mercator Projection Map Calculate the Circumference of the Earth Topographic Mapping of Mountains Contour - Map a Geological Depression Measure the Saltation of Sand Create ...
Glen Vecchione. Earth & Sky Plot Spherical Distance on a Mercator Projection Map Calculate the Circumference of the Earth Topographic Mapping of Mountains Contour - Map a Geological Depression Measure the Saltation of Sand Create ...
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Glen Vecchione. Plot Spherical Distance on a Mercator Projection Map Calculate the Circumference of the Earth Note : Since this. You Will Need • Small , finely detailed globe without stand • Wall - size Mercator projection map ( one you ...
Glen Vecchione. Plot Spherical Distance on a Mercator Projection Map Calculate the Circumference of the Earth Note : Since this. You Will Need • Small , finely detailed globe without stand • Wall - size Mercator projection map ( one you ...
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Glen Vecchione. Mercator projections , named after the Dutch mapmaker Gerardus Mercator ( 1512-1594 ) , offer the ... projection map , Greenland appears roughly the size of South America , when it is actually only one - fifth its size ...
Glen Vecchione. Mercator projections , named after the Dutch mapmaker Gerardus Mercator ( 1512-1594 ) , offer the ... projection map , Greenland appears roughly the size of South America , when it is actually only one - fifth its size ...
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