Help Your Kids with Science: A Unique Step-by-Step Visual Guide, Revision and Reference

ISBN-13: 9781409383468 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 256 str.

Carol Vorderman

Opis

This text presents a simple, visual approach to helping your child understand science. Using clear, accessible pictures, diagrams and easy-to-follow step-by-steps, and covering all the important areas of biology, chemistry and physics, you'll learn to approach even the most complex science problems with confidence.

Spis treści

• 1: Foreword by Carol Vorderman
• 2: What is science?
• 3: The Scientific Method
• 4: Fields of Science
• 5: Biology
• • 1: What is biology?
  • 2: Variety of life
  • 3: Cell structure
  • 4: Cells at work
  • 5: Fungi and single-celled life
  • 6: Respiration
  • 7: Photosynthesis
  • 8: Feeding
  • 9: Waste materials
  • 10: Transport systems
  • 11: Movement
  • 12: Sensitivity
  • 13: Reproduction I
  • 14: Reproduction II
  • 15: Life cycles
  • 16: Hormones
  • 17: Disease and immunity
  • 18: Animal relationships
  • 19: Plants
  • 20: Invertebrates
  • 21: Fish, amphibians, and reptiles
  • 22: Mammals and birds
  • 23: Body systems
  • 24: Human senses
  • 25: Human digestion
  • 26: Brain and heart
  • 27: Human health
  • 28: Human reproduction
  • 29: Ecosystems
  • 30: Food chains
  • 31: Cycles in nature
  • 32: Evolution
  • 33: Adaptations
  • 34: Genetics I
  • 35: Genetics II
  • 36: Pollution
  • 37: Human impact
• 6: Chemistry
• • 1: What is chemistry?
  • 2: Properties of materials
  • 3: States of matter
  • 4: Changing states
  • 5: Gas laws
  • 6: Mixtures
  • 7: Separating mixtures
  • 8: Elements and atoms
  • 9: Compounds and molecules
  • 10: Ionic bonding
  • 11: Covalent bonding
  • 12: Periodic table
  • 13: Understanding the periodic table
  • 14: Alkali metals and alkali earth metals
  • 15: The halogens and noble gases
  • 16: Transition metals
  • 17: Radioactivity
  • 18: Chemical reactions
  • 19: Combustion
  • 20: Redox reactions
  • 21: Energy and reactions
  • 22: Rates of reaction
  • 23: Catalysts
  • 24: Reversible reactions
  • 25: Water
  • 26: Acids and bases
  • 27: Acid reactions
  • 28: Electrochemistry
  • 29: Lab equipment and techniques
  • 30: Refining metals
  • 31: Chemical industry
  • 32: Carbon and fossil fuels
  • 33: Hydrocarbons
  • 34: Functional groups
  • 35: polymers and plastics
• 7: Physics
• • 1: What is physics?
  • 2: Inside atoms
  • 3: Energy
  • 4: Forces and mass
  • 5: Stretching and deforming
  • 6: Velocity and acceleration
  • 7: Gravity
  • 8: Newton's law of motion
  • 9: Understanding motion
  • 10: Pressure
  • 11: Machines
  • 12: Heat transfer
  • 13: Using heat
  • 14: Waves
  • 15: Electromagnetic waves
  • 16: Light
  • 17: Optics
  • 18: Sound
  • 19: Electricity
  • 20: Current, voltage, and resistance
  • 21: Circuits
  • 22: Electronics
  • 23: Magnets
  • 24: Electric motors
  • 25: Electricity generators
  • 26: Transformers
  • 27: Power generation
  • 28: Electricity supplies
  • 29: Energy efficiency
  • 30: Renewable energy
  • 31: The Earth
  • 32: Weather
  • 33: Astronomy
  • 34: The Sun
  • 35: The Solar System I
  • 36: The Solar System II
  • 37: Stars and galaxies
  • 38: Origins of the Universe
• 8: Reference - Biology
• 9: Reference - Chemistry
• 10: Reference - Physics
• 11: Glossary
• 12: Index
• 13: Acknowledgements

O autorze

Carol Vorderman, one of Britain's best known and loved TV personalities, feels passionately about the value of education. Carol joined forces with DK in 1999 to become DK's Education Champion and has worked with them to build the bestselling Made Easy Series which includes Maths, English and Science.