Hands on science
Description
The Foundation series is a science fiction novel series written by American author Isaac Asimov. First published as a series of short stories and novellas in 1942–1950, and subsequently in three novels in 1951–1953, for nearly thirty years the series was widely known as The Foundation Trilogy: Foundation (1951), Foundation and Empire (1952), and Second Foundation (1953). It won the one-time Hugo Award for "Best All-Time Series" in 1966. Asimov later added new volumes, with two sequels, Foundation's Edge (1982) and Foundation and Earth (1986), and two prequels, Prelude to Foundation (1988) and Forward the Foundation (1993). The premise of the stories is that in the waning days of a future Galactic Empire, the mathematician Hari Seldon devises the theory of psychohistory, a new and effective mathematics of sociology.
Books in this Series
Fun Machines
Provides instructions for making such devices as a tin-can telegraph, crystal radio, and kaleidoscope, and suggests a variety of related experiments and other activities.
Food and the kitchen
Provides instructions for a variety of experiments and activities involving food, including the making of cheese, the growing of leaves from cut vegetables, and the testing of different foods for their fat content.
Mystery and magic
Presents a variety of activities, experiments, and simple tricks that explore principles of electricity, physics, biology, and more.
Sound and light
Learn how to bend light! Dazzle your friends with your very own rainbow! Build a guitar from rubber bands and a shoe box! Find out how sugar cubes can produce light! Explore science in action with a wide in action with a wide variety of exciting and rewarding experiments. Scientific principles and fascinating facts are bought brilliantly to life using everyday household materials. Science has never been so much fun.
Color and light
Suggests a variety of experiments, recipes, and other activities demonstrating the properties of color and light.
Measuring and maps
Discusses the science of geography as measured by globes, maps, latitude, longitude, and map symbols, and presents related projects.
Nerves to senses
Explores how our bodies respond to stimuli of the nervous system and presents related projects.