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Format:

Book

Author:

VanCleave, Janice Pratt, author.

Title:

Janice VanCleave's crazy, kooky, and quirky astronomy experiments / Janice VanCleave ; illustrations by Jim Carroll.

Publisher, Date:

New York : Rosen Central, 2019.

Description:

64 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.

Summary:

"Students will reach for the stars without having to leave their own backyards when performing astronomy experiments from Janice VanCleave's ... collection. They will find the North Star, demonstrate the path of a satellite, and even build their own astronomical tools using household items"--Publisher marketing.

Series:

Janice VanCleave's crazy, kooky, and quirky science experiments

VanCleave, Janice Pratt. Janice VanCleave's crazy, kooky, and quirky science experiments.

Subjects:

Astronomy -- Experiments -- Juvenile literature.

Science projects -- Juvenile literature.

Other Author:

Carroll, Jim, illustrator.

Other Title:

Crazy, kooky, and quirky astronomy experiments

Astronomy experiments

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Shifting -- The Dipper -- North Star -- Sky compass -- Above the horizon -- In line -- Spreading -- Cover-up -- Brighter -- Lights out -- Light separator -- Star heights -- Star finder -- The dark trail -- Dirty snowball -- Fly away -- Circling -- Lineup -- Back and forth -- Planet size -- Together -- How cold? -- More or less -- Sunrise-sunset.

LCCN:

2017052945

ISBN:

9781508180951 (lib. bdg.)

9781508181002 (pbk.)

Other Number:

1015253221

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

761851

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

j 520.78 VanCleav