The Wonderful Secrets Of Science
₹
299
₹ 248.17 (17% off)
Available
Weigh an elephant?,Make a Water Mountain?, Create a Magnet?, Separate Salt and Pepper?,Make Flowers Blush?, See a Rainbow? And much, much more....These virtually zero-expenditure, fantastic experiements have been tried and tested, and can be done by children both at home and school, on their own. Narrated as wonderfully engaging stories, many seemingly difficult scientific concepts and phenomena are explained simply but memorably. Each story inculcates a scientific view and temperament in young, bright and inquistive minds. Children will love reading these amusing stories and performing the innovative experiments.
Read moreAbout the Book
Weigh an elephant?,Make a Water Mountain?, Create a Magnet?, Separate Salt and Pepper?,Make Flowers Blush?, See a Rainbow? And much, much more....These virtually zero-expenditure, fantastic experiements have been tried and tested, and can be done by children both at home and school, on their own. Narrated as wonderfully engaging stories, many seemingly difficult scientific concepts and phenomena are explained simply but memorably. Each story inculcates a scientific view and temperament in young, bright and inquistive minds. Children will love reading these amusing stories and performing the innovative experiments.
Book Details
Customer Reviews
Be the first to write a review...
The Wonderful Secrets Of Science does what few children's science books dare: it treats the kitchen table as a laboratory and curiosity as currency. Where textbooks flatten phenomena into diagrams, this collection embeds each principle—magnetism, density, light refraction—inside a narrative a child can feel before they can recite. The question "how do you weigh an elephant?" becomes not a riddle but an invitation to think like Archimedes with a bathtub and household objects. Zero expenditure is not a marketing claim but a pedagogical choice: when a child separates salt from pepper using static electricity from a balloon, the wonder comes from recognising the invisible forces already alive in their world.
Each experiment doubles as a story, and each story refuses to simplify beyond recognition. The prose assumes a young reader can hold complexity if you give them a reason to care. For Indian households where STEM education often means rote formulae before tactile discovery, this book offers a corrective: science as play that leaves permanent understanding, not facts that evaporate after the exam.
What kind of reading experience will this book give me?
This book delivers discovery through immediate action rather than passive absorption. Each chapter moves quickly from question to hands-on experiment, using everyday household items to reveal physical principles. The tone is conversational and encouraging, designed to be read aloud or followed independently by a child. The satisfaction comes not from cliffhangers but from the moment of revelation when static electricity lifts pepper grains or water curves upward defying gravity. It leaves readers with the quiet confidence that science is not locked behind lab doors but already present in their daily surroundings, waiting to be noticed.
Who is this book best suited for, and what does it expect of its reader?
This book is written for children aged 7 to 12 who ask why more often than adults can comfortably answer. It rewards curiosity over prior knowledge, assuming no science background but expecting a willingness to try, fail, and observe carefully. Ideal for:
- Parents seeking screen-free engagement that teaches without lecturing
- Teachers wanting curriculum-aligned activities that require no special equipment
- Children who learn best by touching, building, and testing rather than memorising
- Households where purchasing lab kits is impractical but intellectual hunger is abundant
What is the cultural significance of zero-cost science education for Indian families today?
In a nation where STEM aspiration often collides with resource constraints, this book bridges the gap between access and ambition. Millions of Indian children attend schools without functioning labs, yet face competitive exams demanding conceptual fluency. Zero-expenditure experiments democratise scientific literacy, proving that understanding magnetism or buoyancy does not require imported apparatus. This approach aligns with India's historical tradition of jugaad—ingenious problem-solving with limited means—while nurturing the scientific temperament that policy documents demand but curricula rarely cultivate. It affirms that intellectual awakening need not wait for institutional infrastructure.
What makes this book's approach to teaching science distinctive?
Unlike textbooks that present experiments as verification of known truths, this book frames each activity as narrative discovery. Scientific concepts emerge through story rather than definition: a child does not learn about density by reading its formula but by creating a water mountain and wondering why it holds its shape. The storytelling method makes abstract principles emotionally memorable—the surprise of making flowers change colour stays with a reader longer than a paragraph about pH. The insistence on zero cost is not compromise but philosophy: when you cannot buy your way to understanding, you must observe and think your way there instead.
What does this book leave the reader with long after they finish it?
Readers carry forward a transformed relationship with their environment. Ordinary objects—balloons, mirrors, kitchen salt—no longer sit inert but pulse with potential for investigation. The book instils a habit of scientific questioning: not accepting phenomena as magic but asking what forces, what interactions, what testable hypotheses might explain them. Children finish with:
- Confidence that they can figure things out through observation and experimentation
- A vocabulary of physical principles grounded in lived experience rather than abstract memorisation
- The lasting sense that wonder and rigour are not opposites but partners in understanding the world
