Makerspaces are places designed to inspire creativity and collaboration. In Light It! Creations that Glow, Shine, and Blink, kids will make a wearable mask that glows, a working lamp, and more! Colorful step-by-step photos bring each project to life. Techniques and tips help troubleshoot and use the materials within the makerspace. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.

The Castle Court kids are all busy at work on their science projects and everyone, including some mysterious men in a black van, wants to know what the genius Web has created for his project.

"Design, arrange, construct, and experiment with Cool Engineering Projects! Kids can learn how to build a colorful working catapult, assemble a simple-machine maze, and more! Each workshop project includes easy-to-read, step-by-step instructions paired with photographs. Budding craftspeople and engineers will love learning how to use the tools of the trade to make one-of-a-kind creations. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards."--...

Hope Roberts is a confident eleven-year-old girl who plans to be an astrophysicist, and who loves swimming, Galaxy Girl comic books, her best friend Sam, and her two rescue dogs (not necessarily in that order); but then she starts middle school, and suddenly she cannot seem to do anything right--even science club is a problem because she and another girl, Camilla, get stuck with the boring part of the science project that they suggested, but Hope...

Learn about elements using a variety of science experiments.

Readers ages 9-12 explore the innovative engineering solutions that have come from the natural world around us, and use their own interactions with nature to inspire new designs. Includes science projects, glossary, resources, and index.

Catching elves is no easy task--you need more than candy canes and ribbons! You'll need the perfect trap with precise calculations and proper engineering, and How to Build an Elf Trap can help!

Super Simple Experiments with Light and Color gives young readers the tools they need to start experimenting. Budding scientists will learn to bend laser beams, create rainbows and more! Each project has easy-to-read directions paired with step-by-step photographs, while colorful graphics describe the super science at work.

"Invites middle school kids on a journey of a lifetime to explore the comets, meteors, asteroids, sun, planets, and moons that make up the solar system. Kids learn about the history of space exploration and discovery, along with the tools of astronomy that have made it possible to study celestial objects even outside our own solar system." -- back cover.

"Kids will explore one of Earth's important energy resources with Coal Energy Projects. They'll read about the history of coal energy, where it comes from, and how we use it. They'll mine chocolate chips out of cookies, make peat bog, and more. Each project includes color photos and easy to follow instructions. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Applied to STEM Concepts of Learning Principles. Super Sandcastle is an...