Environmental Science

What you will see and appreciate in the beautiful creations out of leaves on the accompanying pages, and the thoughts these pictures will trigger in your mind. all have elements of the 'scientific temper', of the 'scientific attitutde. about which you would have perhaps come across countless mentions and discussions on earlier occasions But you would have found few solid examples of what, meant by these words, In this lovely booklet, you will find several examples which contain the elements aforementioned. Several others you will he able to create yourself.

Children from the very beginning should be encouraged and persuaded to make use of their heads and hands. Read this book and try making the toys on your own. Going through this book, if you don't understand something, think it over, apply your own mind and try something on your own and by yourself. If what you make does not quite look like the toy shown in the book, but but works, the same way or differently, this is even better.

This book is a collation of some interesting activities - geometry by paper folding, toys, tangrams, pumps, caps, experiments, and simple science models. These activities are interspersed with inspiring stories on education, peace, environment and mathematics. More than one thousand line drawings illustrate the text. This book follows no strict order or hierarchy. It is not meant for any specific age group, nor does it supplement or complement textbooks. This book shows possibilities of doing science with simple things.