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Series
Secrets of a lab rat volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Fearless nine-year-old "Scab" McNally tries to get his twin sister's help in convincing their parents to let them get a dog, but when he embarrasses her in school with a particularly obnoxious invention, it looks like he has lost her cooperation forever.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
"The Lab Series offers artists and crafters a new and contemporary format which provides solid techniques and ideas for unique applications, all presented in an appealing package organized into 52 units which may, but don't need to be explored on a weekly basis. The approach is fun and experimental, offering ideas that can be explored in any order, so that readers can flip around to learn something new or be inspired. The underlying message of the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Carla Sonheim is an artist and creativity workshop instructor known for her fun and innovative projects and techniques designed to help adult students recover a more spontaneous, playful approach to creating. Her innovative ideas are now collected and elaborated on in this unique volume. Carla offers a year's worth of assignments, projects, ideas, and techniques that will introduce more creativity and nonsense into your art and life. Drawing Lab for...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Jewelry Lab uses brevity to ignite a passion for working the metals processes and learning about all the ways metal can be used. It provides aspiring metalsmiths and jewelry makers a way to learn fundamental techniques that is quick and fun. In addition to the basic skills such as sawing, drilling, soldering, and finishing, the book covers texturing, etching, rolling, coloring, patinas, forming, connections, findings, solders, bezels, rivets, and...
Author
Series
Secrets of a lab rat volume 2
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Fourth-grade inventor Scab McNally is in deep water (which happens to be the one thing he's terribly afraid of)! After a fishing trip to the lake with best buddies Doyle, Will and his dog, Joe, Scab is certain that he's discovered a prehistoric swamp creature. Of course, no one will believe his crazy story unless he can prove it and his mother won't allow him to return to the lake until he completes a swimming class with his "smart times ten" twin...
7) Art lab for kids: 52 creative adventures in drawing, painting, printmaking, paper, and mixed media
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Presents art lessons for art projects of varying styles including drawing, printmaking, and mixed media.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"Developed for the younger set (4-6 year olds) and targeting one of the most critical developmental periods for children, Art Lab for Little Kids is the perfect book for both parents and teachers who are seeking enriching and unique experiences to offer this age group.As in Susan Schwake's first book, Art Lab for Kids (Quarry Books, 2012), the Labs can be used as singular projects, or used to build up to a year of hands-on fine art experiences. Each...
Author
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
I'm Mad Margaret, and I'm not really mad, I'm just crazy about science! When a friend tells me he has a sneezing problem, I help him use the scientific method to solve it. I'm no Einstein, but I can tell you all about the scientific method!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"Paint Lab is packed with unique and experimental techniques and ideas in painting. This hands-on book is organized into 52 units, which may, but don't need to be explored on a weekly basis. The labs can be worked on in any order, so that you can flip around to learn a new mixed-media technique or be inspired by a particular painting theme or application. The underlying message of this book is that, as an artist, you should learn and gain expertise...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"This fun and creative book features 52 map-related activities set into weekly exercises, beginning with legends and lines, moving through types and styles, and then creating personalized maps that allow you to journey to new worlds. The labs can be used as singular projects or to build up to a year of hands-on creative experiences. Artists of all ages and experience levels can use this book to explore enjoyable and engaging exercises."--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Predicting volcanic eruptions or earthquakes could save many dollars and lives. Volcanologists study active volcanoes and get down and dirty with ash. They even experiment with red hot lava! Seismologists study earthquakes from fault to devastation. Show young readers that earth science can thrill and astound.
14) Blood shark!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Professor Igor tells the story of Taylor who, while on a school field trip looking for fossils, stole another student's wallet and buried it next to what looked like a fossilized shark fin--but when he came back the next day to retrieve the wallet he found that where there are fossil fins, there are also fossil teeth, and not all the sharks were entirely dead.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Middle school student Kevin is tired of being ignored and obsessed with winning the school science fair prize, so he creates a project with many, many jars of eyeballs, all bobbed up and down in green liquid--but what happens the night after he wins is completely unexpected.
16) Ooze is it?
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When three teenagers hear that the meteor they saw fall from the sky might be valuable, they each sneak back separately to grab a chunk--but this meteor is oozing with something else, and as they fight over a piece something terrible happens, and what is left of them afterward ends up in Professor Igor's lab.
17) Werewolf skin
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Two brothers, Lucas and Travis, and their father are on a hunting trip deep in the woods, and the cabin where they are staying boasts a wolf skin that supposedly came from a werewolf--so when Lucas and the skin disappear, and neither are ever found, the question is: whose skin ended up on Professor Igor's wall?
20) Gardening lab for kids: Green gardening :fun experiments to learn, grow, harvest, make, and play
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Encourages readers to grow their own patch of earth, including fun and creative plant-related activities.