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We Dare You!: Hundreds of Fun Science Bets, Challenges, and Experiments You Can Do at Home

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About We Dare You!: Hundreds Of Fun Science

Product Description This classic, best-selling book full of hundreds of irresistible, easy-to-perform science tricks and bets is back, and it's better than ever! If you'd like to know how to throw an egg across the room without breaking it, how to burn a candle underwater, how to light a fluorescent lightbulb with a balloon, or how to make fireworks from a grape, this is a must-have book. What makes this edition of We Dare You! different? Throughout the book there are QR codes that will instantly connect kids to highly entertaining videos on all devices, showcasing various experiments throughout the book, and directed by author Vicki Cobb. Best of all, Cobb invites readers to make their own videos of these tricks and publish them on the official We Dare You! videos website. Readers can now do science and show business together—an unbeatable combination! Behind it all is solid science. Principles of gravity, mechanics, fluids, logic, geometry, energy, and perception are presented in a way that shows these principles in action. And it's all written on good authority. In 2012 Vicki Cobb received a Lifetime Achievement Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Review “A science-experiment bonanza . . . All of the projects are doable and the science behind them is explained in a kid-accessible manner. . . . A great resource for teachers, parents, and budding scientists—and for any youngster who can’t resist a challenge.” — School Library Journal “Irresistible projects that sneak in science lessons for your kids . . . We got sucked in, too; who wouldn’t want to know how to tie a knot in a bone, burn a candle underwater, and hypnotize a frog?” —Parenting.com About the Author Vicki Cobb is the well-known author of more than eighty-five highly entertaining nonfiction books for children, including Bet You Can’t, which won the New York Academy of Sciences Children’s Science Book Award. Currently, she is president and founder of INK Think Tank: Nonfiction Authors in Your Classroom. She has won numerous awards, including a Sibert Honor and a special Lifetime Achievement Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of for the Advancement of Science in 2012. She lives in Greenburgh, New York.