101 Nature Experiments Book

	The World Around Us
1	Is air really there?	6
2	Test your breath	7
3	See a plant drink	7
4	Measure water loss through a leaf	8
5	Rot a pepper	8
6	Natural recycling	9
7	Make animal cells	10
8	See plant cells	11
9	How sugar moves water	12
10	Living together	12
11	How salt moves water	13
	Life in Water
12	Filter water	14
13	Train fish with sound	15
14	Make an aquarium	15
15	Going green	16
16	Walking on water	16
17	Trap underwater animals	17
18	Make a tide pool viewer	17
19	Make a beachcomber's showcase	18
20	See inside a shell	19
21	Make a mini pond	20
22	Test water for acidity	21
	Life in Soil
23	Test the soil	22
24	Keeping cool	23
25	Make a pit trap	24
26	Look at life in the soil	26
27	Make a worm farm	27
28	Running for cover	28
29	What substances are in soil?	29
	Plants and Growth
30	Detect the growing point	30
31	Watch seeds grow	31
32	Grow vegetable tops	32
33	See a bean grow	33
34	Reaching for light	33
35	Freeze leaves	34
36	Grow a bean upside down	35
37	Test a potato for starch	35
38	Watch sap rise	36
39	Grow an onion	36
40	Discover root power	37
41	Plant fruit pips	38
42	Grow pots of vegetables	39
43	Taking cuttings	40
44	Grow sprout heads	41
45	Make a mini desert	42
46	Create a window garden	44
47	Design a butterfly garden	46
48	Grow a salad garden	48
	Flowers
49	Dissect a flower	50
50	Press some flowers	51
51	Seeing colors	51
52	Make a dried flower arrangement	52
53	Preserve flowers	53
	Trees
54	See buds burst	54
55	Discover the age of a tree	55
56	Measure the height of a tree	55
57	Plant a tree	56
58	Make a bark rubbing	57
59	Make a leaf skeleton	57
60	Grow mold	58
61	Make a spore print	59
62	Make a woodland terrarium	60
	Small Animals
63	Look at insects close up	62
64	Make a "pooter"	63
65	Test a worm's reaction	63
66	Build a caterpillar house	64
67	Make a beehive box	65
68	Train honeybees	65
69	On the move	66
70	Nature's night shift	67
71	Make a spider's web	68
72	Make a moth trap	69
73	Animal tracks	70
74	Make a plaster cast	71
75	Track snails	72
76	Raise fruit flies	72
	Birds
77	Outdoor birdwatching	74
78	Make a blind	75
79	Make a nest box	76
80	Examine an old nest	76
81	Make an egg-viewing box	77
82	Bird food	78
83	Make a feather collection	80
84	Examine owl pellets	82
85	Design a nature diary	82
	The Human Body
86	Blood flow and gravity	84
87	Watch a tooth disintegrate	85
88	See how fast you grow	85
89	See your pulse rate	86
90	See your skin change color	86
91	Collect fingerprints	87
92	Lose your balance	88
93	Test your reactions	89
94	Trick your eyes	90
95	Test your taste threshold	91
96	Test your blind spot	92
97	Feel heat	93
98	Test touch	93
99	Hidden tastes	94
100	Confuse your ears	94
101	Judge sound direction	95
	Index	96