Copycat Science
Step Into the Shoes of the World's Greatest Scientists!
Published on 15. September 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-0-7112-5182-3 (ISBN)
Description
Science is entertaining! Science is funny! Science is downright ridiculous!
Get hands-on and explore the wacky world of science in this comic strip-style book of facts and experiments. Keep things dry underwater with kinetic theory, bravely defy gravity with air pressure, experiment with buoyancy using a Cartesian diver, and much more!
Learn about each scientist and their amazing discoveries in the fun comic strips, then have a go at the experiments and activities yourself. Featuring a diverse range of scientists throughout history this book will inspire you to give science a go! Are you ready?
Get hands-on and explore the wacky world of science in this comic strip-style book of facts and experiments. Keep things dry underwater with kinetic theory, bravely defy gravity with air pressure, experiment with buoyancy using a Cartesian diver, and much more!
Learn about each scientist and their amazing discoveries in the fun comic strips, then have a go at the experiments and activities yourself. Featuring a diverse range of scientists throughout history this book will inspire you to give science a go! Are you ready?
Reviews / Votes
"Learn about science by copying (adapted) concepts from the best!" * Kirkus Reviews *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Quarto Publishing PLC
Target group
Children/juvenile
US School Grade: From Second Grade to Sixth Grade, Interest Age: From 8 to 11 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 173 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
305 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7112-5182-3 (9780711251823)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
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E-Book
09/2020
words & pictures
€14.49
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Persons
Mike Barfield is a writer, poet, performer, songwriter, ukulele player, and cartoonist. He has written extensively for TV and radio - with credits as diverse as Spitting Image, The Dennis the Menace and Gnasher Show and five years on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. His cartoon feature Apparently has appeared in the pages of Private Eye for over 20 years, and his drawings have been on display in the Cartoon Museum, the V & A, the Museum of London, and Nigella Lawson's downstairs loo.
His Destroy This Book series (published by Buster Books) has been sold around the world, starting with the Destroy This Book In The Name of Science! The Element in the Room (Lawrence King, 2018) which was shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Awards 2019.
His Destroy This Book series (published by Buster Books) has been sold around the world, starting with the Destroy This Book In The Name of Science! The Element in the Room (Lawrence King, 2018) which was shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Awards 2019.
Content
Introduction
LIVING THINGS
Maria Sibylla Merian
Six Legs
Theophrastus
Up-seed-down
Nehemiah Grew and Stephen Hales
Cut and Dyed
Charles Darwin
Worm-world
John James Audubon
Feed the Birds
Print a Plant
HUMAN BIOLOGY
Jan Evangelista Purkyne
Print Detective
Hermann von Helmholtz
Optical Tricks
Brain Games
Rosalind Franklin
DIY DNA
A Question of Taste
MATERIALS
Fritz Klatte
Slime Time!
Hans Christian Oersted
Flight Test
Soren Sorenson
Chameleon Water
Robert Angus Smith
AIR
Otto von Guericke
Under Pressure
Daniel Bernoulli
Go with the Flow
The Wright Brothers
Go Fly a Kite!
James Clerk Maxwell
ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM
Electrifying!
Benjamin Franklin
Sparks in the Dark
William Gilbert
Make a Magnet #1
Make a Compass
Make a Magnet #2
FORCES AND PHYSICS
Hypatia of Alexandria
Archimedes
Agnes Pockels
Water Wizardry!
Laura Bassi
Isaac Newton
Bell and Edison
Making Waves
Frank Whittle
LIGHT
Ibn Al-Haytham
See the Light
Isaac Newton
Light Fantastic!
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Big it Up!
Albert Einstein
Micro-light
Lord Rayleigh
ASTRONOMY
Galileo Galilei
Star Struck!
The Apollo 11 Crew
Mad on the Moon!
Caroline Herschel
Space Oddity
Hot Stuff!
MATH
Katherine Johnson
Handy Math
Ada Lovelace
Math Magic!
On a Roll
STANDBY FOR STEM
Mary Somerville
Picture Yourself
Mike Barfield
Glossary
Index
LIVING THINGS
Maria Sibylla Merian
Six Legs
Theophrastus
Up-seed-down
Nehemiah Grew and Stephen Hales
Cut and Dyed
Charles Darwin
Worm-world
John James Audubon
Feed the Birds
Print a Plant
HUMAN BIOLOGY
Jan Evangelista Purkyne
Print Detective
Hermann von Helmholtz
Optical Tricks
Brain Games
Rosalind Franklin
DIY DNA
A Question of Taste
MATERIALS
Fritz Klatte
Slime Time!
Hans Christian Oersted
Flight Test
Soren Sorenson
Chameleon Water
Robert Angus Smith
AIR
Otto von Guericke
Under Pressure
Daniel Bernoulli
Go with the Flow
The Wright Brothers
Go Fly a Kite!
James Clerk Maxwell
ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM
Electrifying!
Benjamin Franklin
Sparks in the Dark
William Gilbert
Make a Magnet #1
Make a Compass
Make a Magnet #2
FORCES AND PHYSICS
Hypatia of Alexandria
Archimedes
Agnes Pockels
Water Wizardry!
Laura Bassi
Isaac Newton
Bell and Edison
Making Waves
Frank Whittle
LIGHT
Ibn Al-Haytham
See the Light
Isaac Newton
Light Fantastic!
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Big it Up!
Albert Einstein
Micro-light
Lord Rayleigh
ASTRONOMY
Galileo Galilei
Star Struck!
The Apollo 11 Crew
Mad on the Moon!
Caroline Herschel
Space Oddity
Hot Stuff!
MATH
Katherine Johnson
Handy Math
Ada Lovelace
Math Magic!
On a Roll
STANDBY FOR STEM
Mary Somerville
Picture Yourself
Mike Barfield
Glossary
Index