Families and teachers looking for a fun way to add science to kids' agendas need look no further. This full-color book of Ruff Ruffman's all-time favorite activities offers a chance to try real science at home, with special tips for turning the activities into science-fair projects. Ruff simplifies the scientific method for kids and shares basic setup and safety procedures for creating a laboratory and keeping a lab notebook. From there, it's on to step-by-step directions for forty-four fun, interactive activities using household items. Icons indicate difficulty levels as well as activities that require grown-up help, while a topical index allows readers to search by subject matter. Triple-dog-dare junior scientists to try them all