PHYSICS IN A MINUTE FOR KIDS: 86 Quick Lessons, Cool Experiments, Surprising Facts, and Big Ideas About How Our World Works

Have you ever tried answering a child's question and realized halfway through that the answer is much harder to explain than you expected?Why does a plane stay in the sky? Why does a huge ship float when a tiny stone sinks? Why can we hear through a wall? What actually makes a rainbow? And if there is no air in space, what is a rocket pushing against?Kids notice things adults have learned to ignore.This book takes those everyday questions and explains the science behind them without turning the answer into a lecture.The book moves through short, easy-to-follow lessons about motion, gravity, energy, heat, light, sound, electricity, magnets, water, machines, airplanes, space, and plenty of things children already see around them. The illustrations help with the parts that are difficult to picture, especially things like forces, particles, sound waves, magnetic fields, airflow, and electric current.There are also little challenges throughout the book. Sometimes the reader has to predict what will happen. Sometimes they have to look around the room and find the physics for themselves. And sometimes they discover that something they were completely sure about is actually a little more complicated.That is really the point of the book.Not to turn a child into a physicist overnight.Just to make the next "Why?" a little more exciting.For kids who like asking questions, taking things apart in their heads, watching science videos, wondering about space, or stopping a movie to ask, "Could that actually happen?" this is a book they can keep coming back to.