Science on the Sidewalk: Street-Level Experiments for Curious Kids

By Etienne G Psaila

Science on the Sidewalk turns ordinary streets, parks, and schoolyards into living laboratories. With nothing more than coins, chalk, string, and keen eyes, you'll guide 7-11-year-olds to test ideas about puddles and rain, shadows and sunlight, sound and wind, moths and streetlights, webs and weeds, ramps and rails. Every activity is built around fair testing, careful measurement, and gentle respect for living things and shared places.

Perfect for teachers, home educators, and families, this narrative guide models how to transform observation into explanation-writing conditions, changing one variable at a time, and drawing conclusions a child can defend. You'll find ready-to-run "street hacks" for reading a rain gauge, mapping wind with a streamer, comparing surfaces for heat and bounce, timing drops, tracking seasons, and hosting a community science fair-all safely outside and with low-cost materials.

Most of all, this book shows how to build habits that last: look closely, ask "why?", try it, record it, and leave every place cleaner than you found it. Curiosity doesn't need a lab pass; it just needs a sidewalk.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1923570587
• ISBN13: 9781923570580
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"