Science on the Sidewalk

<p>Science on the Sidewalk turns ordinary streets parks and schoolyards into living laboratories. With nothing more than coins chalk string and keen eyes you'll guide 7-11-year-olds to test ideas about puddles and rain shadows and sunlight sound and wind moths and streetlights webs and weeds ramps and rails. Every activity is built around fair testing careful measurement and gentle respect for living things and shared places.</p><p></p><p>Perfect for teachers home educators and families this narrative guide models how to transform observation into explanation-writing conditions changing one variable at a time and drawing conclusions a child can defend. You'll find ready-to-run street hacks for reading a rain gauge mapping wind with a streamer comparing surfaces for heat and bounce timing drops tracking seasons and hosting a community science fair-all safely outside and with low-cost materials.</p><p></p><p>Most of all this book shows how to build habits that last: look closely ask why? try it record it and leave every place cleaner than you found it. Curiosity doesn't need a lab pass; it just needs a sidewalk.</p>