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Sometimes the best way to teach a subject is to lay some ground rules and then let students actually "do" what they're studying. This is especially true of science, a study predicated on activity, experimentation and the observation of physical properties. It's also one of the best ways to get kids interested in science in the first place.

If he hadn't stood atop the Tower of Pisa dropping things off the edge, Galileo would never have made his observation that objects of any weight fall at the same rate in a vacuum. Archimedes had to get in the tub to discover that it is volume that displaces water. And the only way Newton could discover calculus was by scribbling numbers on pieces of paper.

Your kid probably isn't the next Einstein, but that doesn't mean he shouldn't learn as much about science as possible, or that he should do so with his hands tied behind his back. The problem with a lot of science textbooks is that they emphasize book knowledge without taking into account the hands-on nature of science and science learning. Observation is often touted as an essential part of the science process, but rarely is it enforced in the typical school curriculum.

Science resources can change all that. There are plenty of fact-based books (particularly those from Usborne) that pair facts with vivid illustrations, and those are fun for rainy days—kids are a lot better at acquiring and retaining raw information than we often give them credit for. But those are just a place to start; the options are limitless.

One of the best sorts of science resource are books filled with experiments. Whether it's Explorabook from Klutz Press which focuses on fun activities and includes everything you need to complete them, or Vicki Cobb's Bet You Can! experiments using household items, or the more advanced Science for Every Kid books by Janice VanCleave, you aren't likely to run out of options.

Astronomy is more observation-oriented, and we offer plenty of books on that topic, too. The Stars by H.A. Rey is a now-classic guide to the night sky for beginners, while Starry Messenger explains some of the basic tenets of modern astronomy through the (detailed and beautifully illustrated) life of Galileo Galilei. Isaac Asimov has written a number of books on space science, as has Seymour Simon.

Just letting your kids outside with notebooks and maybe a magnifying glass is as good as any book for helping them develop a love of nature and nature study, though manuals to help them identify plants, animals, rocks, etc. is a good idea. One of our favorite such books is the Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock.

Keeping a well-stocked chemistry lab is a good idea for older students. Many experiments require chemicals, ingredients and equipment you aren't likely to just have lying around, so you'll need to be intentional about keeping a lot of those things stocked. Field trips are always a good idea as well, whether to a local laboratory, observatory, zoo, factory, or anywhere else that strikes your kids' fancy and has educational potential.

Whatever else you do, keep an open mind while guiding your kids' science education. The beauty of God's world and the excitement of learning about it should always be kept in view; whatever difficulty there is in physics, biology or chemistry should be met head on but not dwelt on or made cause for discouragement. Have fun, and don't restrict your science time to reading stuff—take time to actually do science, and you might find along with your children that it isn't such a bad thing to study after all.

Review by C. Hollis Crossman
C. Hollis Crossman used to be a child. Now he is a husband and father, teaches adult Sunday school in his Presbyterian congregation, and likes weird stuff. He might be a mythical creature, but he's definitely not a centaur. Read more of his reviews here.

 

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All the Water Birds - Pacific Coast
by Jack Griggs
1st edition
for 7th-12th grade
in Field Guides: Birds (Location: NAT-FG01)
$4.50 (1 in stock)
Anatomy Coloring Book
by Wynn Kapit
4th edition from Pearson Education
for 9th-Adult
in Anatomy Coloring Books (Location: SCI-ANACOL)
$34.99
Anatomy Coloring Book (old)
by Lawrence M. Elson, Wynn Kapit
2nd edition from HarperCollins
for 7th-12th grade
in Old Edition Science (Location: OSCI)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Arts of the Sailor
by Hervey Garrett Smith
Reprint from Dover Publications
for 5th-Adult
in Ships, Boats & Submarines (Location: HISV-SHIP)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Backyard Ballistics
by William Gurstelle
from Chicago Review Press
for 7th-Adult
in Dangerous Books for Kids (Location: SS-DAN)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
Backyard Ballistics
by William Gurstelle
Second Edition from Chicago Review Press
for 7th-Adult
in Dangerous Books for Kids (Location: SS-DAN)
$16.95
Biology Coloring Workbook
by I. Edward Alcamo
from Princeton Review
for 10th-Adult
in Biology (Location: SCI-BIO)
$12.00 (1 in stock)
Body By Design
by Alan Gillen
from Master Books
for 9th-Adult
in Human Anatomy & Physiology (Location: SCI-ANA)
$13.59
Brendan Voyage
Modern Library Exploration
by Tim Severin
from Modern Library
for 10th-Adult
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
$19.00
Building Blocks in Earth Science
by Gary Parker
from Master Books
for 7th-12th grade
in Earth Science (Location: SCI-EARTH)
$12.79
Building Blocks in Life Science
by Gary Parker
from Master Books
for 9th-12th grade
in Master Books Science (Location: SCICUR-MB)
$12.79
Buried Alive
by Jack Cuozzo
1st edition from Master Books
for 10th-Adult
in Clearance: Christian Books (Location: XCLE)
$4.00 (2 in stock)
Cartoon Guide to Physics
by Larry Gonick
Reprint
for 7th-12th grade
in Physics (Location: SCI-PHY)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Chemistry Made Simple
by Fred C. Hess
from Doubleday & Company
for 9th-12th grade
in Chemistry (Location: SCI-CHEM)
$4.50 (1 in stock)
Concerning the Nature of Things
by Sir William Bragg
from Dover Publications
for 5th-Adult
in Vintage Science & Math (Location: VIN-SCI)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Creative Haven Beautiful Birds - Coloring Book
Creative Haven
by Dot Barlowe
First Edition, Fir from Dover Publications
for 7th-Adult
in Adult Coloring Books (Location: COL-ADULT)
$6.99
Discover Nature in Water & Wetlands
by Elizabeth P. Lawlor, illustrated by Pat Archer
from Stackpole Books
for 9th-Adult
in Nature Study & Journaling (Location: NAT-GEN)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Discovery of Design
by Donald DeYoung
from Master Books
for 10th-Adult
in Clearance: Christian Books (Location: XCLE)
$10.00 (1 in stock)
Einstein's Theory of Relativity
by Max Born with the collaboration of Gunther Leibfried and Walter Biem
2022 Reprint from Dover Publications
for 10th-Adult
in Physics (Location: SCI-PHY)
$7.50 (1 in stock)
Elements
by Theodore Gray
from Black Dog & Leventhal
for 9th-12th grade
in Chemistry (Location: SCI-CHEM)
$19.99 $14.00 (1 in stock)
Elements of Faith Volume 1: Hydrogen to Tin (old)
by Richard Duncan
from Master Books
for 9th-Adult
in Old Edition Science (Location: OSCI)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Evolution Exposed
by Roger Patterson
from Answers in Genesis
for 9th-Adult
in Clearance: Christian Books (Location: XCLE)
$4.00
Exploring the World of Astronomy
by John Hudson Tiner
from Master Books
for 5th-12th grade
in Memoria Press Science (Location: SCICUR-MP)
$15.19 $10.00 (1 in stock)
Exploring the World of Astronomy - Set
by John Hudson Tiner
for 5th-12th grade
in Memoria Press Science (Location: SCICUR-MP)
$29.27
Exploring the World of Biology
Exploring Series
by John Hudson Tiner
from Master Books
for 7th-10th grade
in Memoria Press Science (Location: SCICUR-MP)
$15.19 $9.50 (1 in stock)
Exploring the World of Biology - Set
Exploring Series
by John Hudson Tiner
for 7th-10th grade
in Memoria Press Science (Location: SCICUR-MP)
$29.27
Exploring the World of Chemistry
Exploring Series
by John Hudson Tiner
from Master Books
for 7th-10th grade
in Memoria Press Science (Location: SCICUR-MP)
$15.19 $9.50 (1 in stock)
Exploring the World of Chemistry - Set
Exploring Series
by John Hudson Tiner
for 7th-10th grade
in Memoria Press Science (Location: SCICUR-MP)
$29.27
Exploring the World of Physics
Exploring Series
by John Hudson Tiner
from Master Books
Non-fiction for 7th-10th grade
in Memoria Press Science (Location: SCICUR-MP)
$15.19
Exploring the World of Physics - Set
Exploring Series
by John Hudson Tiner
Non-fiction for 7th-10th grade
in Memoria Press Science (Location: SCICUR-MP)
$29.27
Field Guide to Bacteria
by Betsey Dexter Dyer
from Cornell University Press
for 9th-Adult
in Biology (Location: SCI-BIO)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
Flood by Design
by Michael Oard
from Master Books
for 8th-12th grade
in Geology (Rocks & Minerals) (Location: SCI-GEO)
$13.59 $9.00 (1 in stock)
Genesis of Germs
by Alan L. Gillen
from Master Books
for 10th-Adult
in Genetics & Microscopic Life (Location: SCI-GEN)
$17.59
Great Alaskan Dinosaur Adventure
by Buddy Davis, John Whitmore, Mike Liston
from Master Books
for 9th-Adult
in Dinosaurs & Fossils (Location: SCI-DINO)
$8.79
Great Dinosaur Mystery Solved!
by Ken Ham
from Master Books
for 9th-Adult
in Clearance: Christian Books (Location: XCLE)
$2.00 (1 in stock)
Great Physicists from Galileo to Einstein
by George Gamow
from Dover Publications
Biography for 9th-Adult
in History of Science & Mathematics (Location: SCI-HIS)
$16.95
Human Anatomy in Full Color
by John Green
from Dover Publications
for 4th-12th grade
in Human Anatomy & Physiology (Location: SCI-ANA)
$9.95
In the Heart of the Sea
by Nathaniel Philbrick
from Penguin Putnam
for 10th grade-adult
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
$17.00
It Couldn't Just Happen
by Lawrence O. Richards
from Thomas Nelson Publishers
for 9th-Adult
in Faith & Science (Location: XAP-SCI)
$18.99
It Couldn't Just Happen (old)
by Lawrence O. Richards
from Thomas Nelson Publishers
for 7th-10th grade
in Clearance: Christian Books (Location: XCLE)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Jack Nastyface
by William Robinson
from US Naval Institute Press
for 10th-Adult
in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
$7.00 (1 in stock)
Janice VanCleave's Magnets
by Janice VanCleave
1st edition from Wiley-Interscience
for 6th-10th grade
in Electricity & Magnetism (Location: SCI-PHY)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Junk Drawer Ecology
by Bobby Mercer
from Chicago Review Press
for 4th-Adult
in Science Experiments & Activities (Location: SCI-EXP)
$16.99
Keystone Battlewagon - U.S.S. Pennsylvania (BB-38)
Warship Series #2
by Myron J. Smith
1st edition
for 7th-10th grade
in Clearance: History & Geography (Location: ZCLE-HIS)
$2.00 (1 in stock)
Microbe Hunters
by Paul De Kruif, introduction by F. Gonzalez-Crussi
from Harcourt
for 10th-Adult
in History of Science & Mathematics (Location: SCI-HIS)
$8.50 (1 in stock)
Moby-Dick
by Herman Melville
from Penguin Putnam
Realistic Nautical Fiction for 9th-Adult
in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
$16.00
Molecules
by Theodore Gray
from Black Dog & Leventhal
for 9th-12th grade
in Chemistry (Location: SCI-CHEM)
$19.99
National Audubon Society Field Guide to Insects & Spiders
by Lorus and Margery Milne
Later Printing from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
for 7th-Adult
in Field Guides & Nature Handbooks (Location: NAT-FG07)
$12.00 (1 in stock)
National Audubon Society Field Guide to Mammals
by John O. Whitaker
from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
for 5th-10th grade
in Field Guides: Mammals (Location: NAT-FG05)
$26.00
National Audubon Society Field Guide to Shells
Reprint from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
for 4th-Adult
in Field Guides: Fish & Water Life (Location: NAT-FG02)
$24.95
National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Night Sky
First Edition from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
for 7th-Adult
in Field Guides: Weather & Astronomy (Location: NAT-FG10)
$24.95
National Audubon Society Field Guide to Trees: Western Region
by Elbert L. Little
from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
for 4th-Adult
in Field Guides: Plants & Fungi (Location: NAT-FG08)
$26.00
New Answers Book 1
by Ken Ham, Jonathan Sarfati & Carl Wieland
from Master Books
for 7th-Adult
in Faith & Science (Location: XAP-SCI)
$7.50 (2 in stock)
New Answers Book 2
by Ken Ham, Dr. Andrew Snelling, Dr. Jason Lisle, Dr. Elizabeth Mitchell, Dr. Danny Faulkner, Mike Riddle, and more.
from Master Books
for 7th-Adult
in Faith & Science (Location: XAP-SCI)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
New Answers Book 3
by Ken Ham
from Master Books
for 9th-12th grade
in Faith & Science (Location: XAP-SCI)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
Ocean Anatomy
by Julia Rothman
from Storey Publishing
for 6th-Adult
in Nature Study & Journaling (Location: NAT-GEN)
$18.99
Penguins: Flightless Birds of the Southern Hemisphere
from Sea World
for 6th-12th grade
in Birds (Location: SCI-BIRD)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Peterson First Guide to Butterflies and Moths
by Paul A. Opler
2nd edition from Houghton Mifflin
for 5th-12th grade
in Field Guides: Insects & Arachnids (Location: NAT-FG04)
$9.99 $5.00 (1 in stock)
Physics of Superheroes
by James Kakalios
2nd edition from Avery
for 9th-Adult
in Physics (Location: SCI-PHY)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Physics of the Impossible
by Michio Kaku
from Anchor Books
for 10th-Adult
in Physics (Location: SCI-PHY)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Planets, Stars and Galaxies
by A. E. Fanning, revised by Donald H. Menzel
1966 Dover edition from Dover Publications
for 9th-Adult
in Vintage Science & Math (Location: VIN-SCI)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast
by Jim Pojar, Andy MacKinnon
Revised from Partners Publishing
for 8th-Adult
in Field Guides: Plants & Fungi (Location: NAT-FG08)
$14.00 (1 in stock)
PLP: Advanced Pre-Med Studies - Package
from Master Books
for 10th-12th grade
in Master Books Science (Location: SCICUR-MB)
PLP: Survey of Science History & Concepts - Parent Lesson Planner
from Master Books
for 10th-12th grade
in Master Books Science (Location: SCICUR-MB)
$17.59 $14.00 (1 in stock)
Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism
P.I.G. series
by Christopher C. Horner
from Regnery Publishing, Inc.
for 10th-Adult
in Environment & Conservation (Location: SCI-ENV)
$13.00 (1 in stock)
Safe and Simple Electrical Experiments
by Rudolf F. Graf
from Dover Publications
for 9th grade-adult
in Science Experiments & Activities (Location: SCI-EXP)
$4.50 (1 in stock)
Salt-Water Men
Canadian Inheritance Series #1
by Joseph Schull
from Inheritance Publications
for 7th-10th grade
in Ships, Boats & Submarines (Location: HISV-SHIP)
$12.95
Science and the Bible
by Donald DeYoung
from Baker Books
for 7th-12th grade
in Clearance: Science & Health (Location: ZCLE-SCI)
$2.00 (1 in stock)
Scientific Creationism
by Henry M. Morris
2nd edition from Master Books
for 10th-Adult
in Clearance: Christian Books (Location: XCLE)
$8.00
Six Easy Pieces
from Basic Books
for 9th-Adult
in Physics (Location: SCI-PHY)
$15.99
Space Shuttle Operator's Manual
by Kerry Joels
from Ballantine Books
for 7th-12th grade
in How Things Work (Location: SCIREF-HOW)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Stargazing with a Telescope
by Robin Scagell
Revised from Firefly Books
for 6th-Adult
in Astronomy (Space) (Location: SCI-AST)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Stars
by H. A. Rey
from Houghton Mifflin
Non-fiction for 8th-12th grade
in Astronomy (Space) (Location: SCI-AST)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Stars
by H. A. Rey
from Houghton Mifflin
Non-fiction for 8th-12th grade
in Astronomy (Space) (Location: SCI-AST)
$14.99
Teaching Technology Through Interest Projects
by Jennifer Katherine Brooks
from Critical Thinking Books
for 3rd-12th grade
in How Things Work (Location: SCIREF-HOW)
$14.99
Totality: Eclipses of the Sun
by Mark Littman and Ken Willcox
from University of Hawaii Press
for 10th-Adult
in Astronomy (Space) (Location: SCI-AST)
$7.00 (1 in stock)
Trees and Shrubs of the Pacific Northwest
Timber Press Field Guides
by Ellen Kuhlmann, Mark Turner
from Timber Press, Inc.
for 4th-Adult
in Field Guides: Plants & Fungi (Location: NAT-FG08)
$29.95
Vanishing Proofs of Evolution
by Thomas F Heinze
from Chick Publications
for 9th-Adult
in Clearance: Christian Books (Location: XCLE)
$3.00 (1 in stock)
Western Birds
Peterson Field Guides
by Roger Tory Peterson
3rd from Houghton Mifflin
for 7th-Adult
in Field Guides: Birds (Location: NAT-FG01)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
What Is Creation Science?
by Gary E. Parker, Henry M. Morris
Revised from Master Books
for 10th-Adult
in Clearance: Christian Books (Location: XCLE)
$9.00
Wildflowers of the Columbia Gorge
by Russ Jolley
from Oregon Historical Society Press
for 8th-Adult
in Field Guides: Plants & Fungi (Location: NAT-FG08)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Wildlife Anatomy
by Julia Rothman
1st edition from Storey Publishing
for 6th-Adult
in Nature Study & Journaling (Location: NAT-GEN)
$18.99
Wildlife of the Pacific Northwest
Timber Press Field Guides
by David Moskowitz
from Timber Press, Inc.
for 4th-Adult
in Field Guides: Animals (general) (Location: NAT-FG03)
$29.99
Wright Brothers
by David McCullough
Reprint from Simon & Schuster Macmillan
for 9th-Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$16.99
Young Earth (old)
by John D. Morris
from Master Books
for 9th-Adult
in Clearance: Science & Health (Location: ZCLE-SCI)
$2.00 (1 in stock)
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