Tantalizing Science Book

Books for teaching Science to your kids (homeschool or traditional school) are a dime a dozen. But I just found a really cool one that I have to pass on!

It's called Bet You Can't! Science Impossibilities to Fool Youby Vicki Cobb and Kathy Darling. This book is positively addictive. It features 62 tricks that can't be done. But they sound so easy that you just want to try them. Then, after you can't beat gravity (or whatever the scientific principle is that's at work), read the scientific explanation behind it. Only one doesn't have a reason -- and that's because scientists still don't know why you can't do it! Bet you can't pour water through a hose!!!

Our last mathematician was Newton and there's a whole chapter devoted to Gravity which we will explore next week. Here are the chapter headings and sample tricks:

The Artful Use of Gravity
Bet You Can't Stand on Your Tiptoes!
Bet You Can't Pick Up a Chair Unless You Are Female!
Bet You Can't Beat Me in a Rolling Contest!

Forces of Deception
Bet You Can't Touch a Broomstick to the Floor!
Bet You Can't Rip a Tissue!
Bet You Can't Break a Light Bulb on a Concrete Floor!

Fluid Foolers
Bet You Can't Suck Soda Through Two Straws!
Bet You Can't Blow Out a Candle Through a Funnel!
Bet You Can't Mix One Quart Plus One Quart and Get Two Quarts!

Mathematical Duplicity
Bet You Can't Divide by Five!
Bet You Can't Pick up the Last Cent in This Game!
Bet You Can't Figure Out a Simple Arithmetic Problem!

Energy Entrapments
Bet You Can't Get a Superball to Bounce as High as a Pen!
Bet You Can't Make a Flame Pass Through a Strainer!
Bet You Can't Raise the Temperature of Ice Water by Heating It!

Mind and Body Con Games
Bet You Can't Fit a Penny on This Drawing of a Table!
Bet You Can't Tell Hot from Cold!
Bet You Can't Make Two Pencil Points Meet on One Try!

Probable Pitfalls and Cunning Bluffs
(a chapter of brainteasers, which I won't give away here)

This is a must-have for Science classrooms!