INVESTIGATING THE NATURAL WORLD

OF CHEMISTRY WITH KIDS

Investigating the Natural World

of Chemistry with Kids Experiments, Writing, and Drawing Activities

for Learning Science

Michael J. Strauss with illustrations by Lynn Jeffery

Universal-Publishers

Boca Raton

Investigating the Natural World of Chemistry with Kids: Experiments, Writing, and Drawing Activities for Learning Science

Copyright © 1995-2012 Michael J. Strauss

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Boca Raton, Florida, USA • 2012

ISBN-10: 1-61233-155-6/ ISBN-13: 978-1-61233-155-3

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Chapter opening illustrations copyright © 1995 by Lynn Jeffery

The first printing published in 1995 by Heinemann as Where Puddles Go - Investigating Science with Kids is referenced by name in the Introduction to this edition.

Excerpt from GENIUS: THE LIFE AND SCIENCE OF RICHARD PEYNMAN by James Gleick. Copyright © 1992. Reprinted by permission of Pantheon Books, a Division of Random House, Inc.

Dialogue for Chapter 1, “Evaporation,” originally appeared in “Evaporation: A Constructivist Dialogue” by Michael J. Strauss in Journal of Humanistic Education and Development (vol. 32, 1994). Reprinted by permission

of the Editor.

Dialogue for Chapter 5, “Mixing,” originally appeared in “What’s Pure?“ by Michael J. Strauss in ETC: A Review of General Semantics. Copyright © 1994 by the International Society for General Semantics. Reprinted

by permission of the Editor.

Publisher’s Cataloging Information

Strauss, Michael J., 1940- Investigating the natural world of chemistry with kids : experiments, writing, and drawing activities for learning science / Michael J. Strauss; with illustrations by Lynn Jeffrey. p. cm. Includes index. Summary: Contains a variety of experiments that illustrate such basic principles of physical change as condensation, evaporation, melting and freezing, and crystallization. ISBN 978-1-61233-155-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 1-61233-155-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Physics—Experiments—Juvenile literature. 2. Physics projects—Juvenile literature. [1. Physics—Experiments. 2. Experiments.] I. Jeffrey, Lynn, ill. II. Title. QC26.S77 1995 536.4ˈ0078—dc20 2012914594