Janice VanCleave's A+ Projects in Physics: Winning Experiments for Science Fairs and Extra Credit

By Janice VanCleave

Book Overview

Thirty terrific physics projects from everyone's favorite science teacher

This invaluable guide to physics projects, written for middle and high school students, details how to put together projects that showcase key physics concepts. In this latest volume in her successful series of science fair project books, Janice VanCleave provides thirty comprehensive projects-on measurement, force and motion, states of matter, energy, and electricity-that come complete with illustrations, charts, diagrams, and suggestions for original projects on related topics. Whether students want to work with pendulums, lenses, or parallel circuits, this book provides the inspiration and hands-on help they need to assure science fair success.

Janice VanCleave (Riesel, TX) is a former elementary and high school science teacher who now spends her time writing and giving science workshops. She is the author of more than forty children's science books, with sales totaling more than 2 million copies.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471330981
• ISBN13: 9780471330981
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

FuN Projects in Physics

Simple ans extremely informative, Janice VanCleave has placed science into a new realm where it is fun and educational, it makes a family experience out of the projects!