This book is excellent for getting kids engaged in science, and (even better) can be used at home, which is especially important now that so many students are learning at home since their schools are closed.

Real Science Experiments by Jessica Harris is a fun educational tool that should be in every classroom library. This book contains 40 fun and thought provoking Experiments for kids ages 8 - 12. This book is easy enough that the kids can really do the experiments with little over site but not so easy that it's boring and without challenge. This book uses STEM because they are important career fields for innovation. The author added A (STEAM) which stands for science, technology, engineering, art, and math. because it shows the importance of creativity and design thinking in the real world. The Experiments are educational and build on the scientific principles and concepts that have already been learned in school. After each experiment is a section on how and why. which offers information to deepen you understanding of the concepts in the experiment. There is also a "try this" section that helps you go beyond what you have learned and helps you build your own experiments. Each experiment has easy to follow steps that support the process of scientific investigation. The materials used in experiments are often things you will already have at home or are easily purchased for very little money. I love this book and recommend it to anyone with a child who is interested in science.

As someone who is tasked with bringing STEAM into public library service, I loved this book. The procedures were well written, the background in science well presented and all the supplies are easily procured. When one is working with a public library budget, a book full of fun experiments that can be done with supplies you likely have on hand is a dream come true.

The digital edition offers great features to navigate the book and get more information for further study, though a hard copy would be a fantastic tool for anyone interested in STEM/STEAM education. Kids, tween and teens would be able to read this book, and execute the experiments, pretty independently (great for self-guided learning) or the text could serve as a solid base for introductory STEAM curriculum. I would have loved to have had his resource when I was starting out creating our Makerspace/STEAM program.

This is a great “junk drawer science” book sure to be a hit with young scientists and educators alike.

Real Science Experiments is a journal and tutorial guide for STEAM exploration by Jess Harris. Released 24th Dec 2019 by Callisto on their Rockridge Press imprint, it's 140 pages and available in paperback and ebook formats. It's worth noting that the ebook format has a handy interactive table of contents as well as interactive links. I've really become enamored of ebooks with interactive formats lately. For Kindle Unlimited subscribers, this book is included in the KU subscription library to borrow and read for free.
I have been talking about STE(A)M education and books since the very earliest days of this blog. It's vitally important to expose kids to the concepts as soon as possible. They're the ones who are going to be making our future. They're the innovators, creators, inventors, discoverers of tomorrow's world. The more our kids are engaging with the world around them, the better. Critical thinking skills are more vitally important now than ever before. We're bombarded with messaging and media spin from the moment we're born and learning to differentiate the truth is a vital survival skill. That's where STE(A)M comes in. Finding fun ways to keep their interest is key.

This is a well designed fun and interactive tutorial for doing precisely that. There are 40 fun experiments arranged around S cience, T echnology, E ngineering, A rt, and M ath. (Hence the acronym). There's also a synergistic final chapter with hints and tips for further exploration, a glossary, links and references.

I wish the book had had more photographs. The tutorial chapters are adequately photographed, but there are a number of them which don't have any photographs or illustrations at all. The exercises themselves are safe, well written, and can be done with easily sourced tools and supplies. I just wish there were more illustrations.

This would be a superlative book for classroom activities, library activity days, makers groups, homeschooling, or just a cool gift for a young person.

Four stars.