Lone Cone Library

"Through 52 fun, customizable crafts activities, Craft Lab for Kids promotes creativity and hands-on making for kids age 8 and up"--

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.

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.

This book provides young readers with an overview of mixtures and solutions. The text includes a simple overview of mixtures and solutions and examines homogeneous and heterogeneous mixtures, suspensions and colloids, solubility, saturation, and concentration. Information is explained using real-world examples and supported with graphics and photos.

"This title provides an overview of chemical reactions. Text includes a simple overview of chemical reactions and examines matter, bonds, energy, physical changes, reactions, acids, bases, chemical equations, and reaction rate. Information is explained using real-world examples and supported with graphics and photos. This book concludes with two simple, kid-friendly experiments"--Publisher's website

Presents several messy science experiments.

Chuckie, the Chocolate Lab, always tries his best, but does not always succeed. (Sometimes he makes mistakes!) This book explains how hard it can be to always be on your best behavior, but how with some reminders, we can learn to be kind and considerate.

Chuckie the Chocolate Lab has a tendency to eat too many snacks! This can cause him to have a bellyache. Chuckie Has a Bellyache is a great book for children to learn how to make good choices. They will enjoy following Chuckie's silly antics as he gets himself into some trouble. Young children will love the adorable illustrations and early readers will be able to read this book by themselves. Author and educator Amy Jensen writes about her real life...

"Describes how to prepare and perform several magic tricks for beginner level magicians. Includes embedded links for added online instructional videos that can be accessed with the Capstone 4D app"--

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...