Books by Leslie Johnstone
You Build It TV Remote Control (SmartLab)
by Clive Gifford, Leslie Johnstone, Shar Levine
Take control! Kids build the remote themselves and gain hands-on experience with the science of light and energy.
Includes everything kids need to build a working remote control (for use with home TV and VCR).
Kids build and program this universal remote to discover how light and energy make channel surfing possible.
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USA TODAY Weather Wonders Book & Kit
by Leslie Johnstone, Shar Levine, Michael A. DiSpezio
USA TODAY makes it fun for kids to find out about everything from hurricanes to humidity, sunny days to stormy skies! This interactive kit features lots of exciting materials, starting with USA TODAY Weather Wonders, an 80-page full-color book thats jam-packed with experiments, fun facts, and hilarious jokes. And thats not all! Budding meteorologists will check which way the wind is blowing with the white cloud-patterned windsock, and keep track of whats happening outside with the USA TODAY dry-erase weather map of the United States and four dry-erase colored markers. Its a great gift!
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The Ultimate Guide to Your Microscope
by Leslie Johnstone, Shar Levine
Get our your microscope and take a close-up look at a tiny world! This book by two award-winning science authors shows you how.
Looking at little things—things too small to see with the naked eye—can be big fun. It’s certainly smart science, and award-winning authors Shar Levine and Leslie Johnstone are here to show kids the basics of creating their own professional-quality slides and using their own microscopes. A whole world will open up to budding scientists as they learn to identify the microscope’s different pieces, practice focusing, and prepare different kinds of samples for viewing. Illustrated throughout with photomicrographs (pictures taken through a microscope), and complete with a reproducible form for documenting specimens, this fascinating, in-depth guide explains how to put bugs, water, food, plants and pollen, and even parts of the body (like fingernails) under the scope for a close-up glimpse. Of course, there are troubleshooting answers to common questions and safety instructions for parents and teachers, too.
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Extreme 3-D: Weird Animals
by Leslie Johnstone, Shar Levine, Elaine Humphrey
How can something so tiny be so … nasty? That’s the question that comes to mind with Extreme 3-D: Weird Animals. Strange creatures of all shapes and sizes, living everywhere from the backyard to just under the fingernails, can be seen up close — magnified 10,000 times — in nearly 100 3-D photographs. The book includes special glasses with colorful plastic frames for viewing these miniature monsters, each of which gets its own profile with fun facts.
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Extreme Secret Formula Lab (Smart Lab)
Kids try their hand at mad science in the much-anticipated update of the popular title You-Mix-It Secret Formula Lab. This EXTREME version features tailored components such as a mix-and-measure scoop, test tubes with squishy lids, and an abundance of glow-in-the- dark powder so kids can concoct 20 experiments that glow, ooze, and stink up the kitchen. From glow-in-the-dark alien blood to scratch-and-sniff stickers, young scientists will never have so much fun with a beaker, test tubes, and commonly found household ingredients!
Beaker
Funnel
Test tube stand
Mix-and-measure scoop
8g glow-in-the-dark powder (up from 3g in original Secret Formula Lab)
Mixing bowl
2 test tubes with squishy lids
Eyedropper
Sticker sheet
24-page fully-illustrated book
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