Book Review – What’s Science All About?

This book contains the following three books: What’s Biology all about? What’s Chemistry all about? and What’s Physics all about? It contains cute colourful illustrations, and experiments and internet links for further exploration.

What’s Biology All About? covers the following topics:

Part 1: What’s life?

  • Living & non-living things
  • Classification
  • Plant & animal cells
  • Viruses, Bacteria, Protists, Microbes
  • Introduction to medicine

Part 2: How do human bodies work?

  • Shape and movement (skeletal system)
  • The brain (nervous system)
  • Senses
  • Digestive system
  • Respiratory system
  • Blood
  • Reproduction system
  • Genes
  • Animal bodies

Part 3: How do plants work?

  • Living & growing
  • Leaves
  • Reproduction

Part 4: Where did life come from?

  • As always, an introduction to what scientists say, where life came from – evolution (we know better: we DO know that God simply spoke it into being)
  • Fossils

Part 5: Life on Earth

  • Animal Adaptation
  • Food web & food chain

 

What’s Chemistry All About? covers the following topics:

Part 1: What’s the world made of?

  • Atoms
  • Molecules
  • States of Substances
  • Properties of materials
  • Separating solutions

Part 2: How does it all work?

  • Atoms
  • The Periodic Table
  • Metals/Metalloids/Non-metals
  • Atoms, shells, electrons
  • Molecules
  • Nuclear reactions

Part 3: Let’s make things happen!

  • Reactions
  • Acid & Base
  • Ph Scale

Part 4: How is chemistry useful?

  • Carbon chemistry
  • All about metals
  • Using gases
  • Non-metals

Part 5: Our chemical universe

  • Again – where did the elements come from…
  • Rocks & the rock cycle
  • What’s up in the air
  • How does your body work

 

What’s Physics All About? covers the following topics:

Part 1: The beginning of everything

  • How did the universe begin? The Big Bang
  • What’s everything made of? Atoms & Molecules

Part 2: Feel the force

  • Speed and Motion
  • Mass
  • Momentum
  • Different kinds of forces
  • Friction
  • Newton’s law
  • Gravity
  • Centripetal force
  • Center of gravity
  • Pressure
  • Density

Part 3: Energy everywhere

  • Fossil Fuels
  • Power
  • Heat
  • Waves
  • Electromagnetic spectrum
  • Light
  • Reflection
  • Refraction
  • Sound

Part 4: It’s electrifying!

  • Electricity
  • Electric Currents
  • Batteries
  • Circuits
  • Magnets

Part 5: Lost in space

  • The Sun
  • The Moon
  • The Solar System

In the back it has a Science factfile with abbreviations and formulae, a summary on chemical equations and the inside of Atoms for quick reference.

What’s Science All About? was surely an investment – my 10-year-old enjoyed reading through it. Although it has some information we didn’t cover in our curriculum for grade 5, we will surely use it again next year!
 
 
 
 

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