500 Things You Should Know

About Science
By:Selma Hadzic

Summary
500 Things You Should Know About Science is by Miles Kelly. This book gives
information on various topics. Topics such as inventions, space science, human body,
weather, and basic science facts. This book is for someone in a younger grade level,
it gives information that older children would probably already know about.

2 Examples
In the human body section it gives facts such as:
Skin helps the body stay at the same
temperature.
Most people have 206 bones; 8 in the upper
part of the skull, 14 in the face, 6 tiny ear
bones and three deep in each ear, 1 in the
neck, 26 in the spinal column, 25 in the
chest, 32 in each arm, 31 in each leg.

In the weather section it gives facts such as:

Lighting is dangerous and can give a shock
that can kill you. But there was once an
American park ranger, Roy Sullivan that
survived being struck seven times.
Hailstones can be as big as melons. These
chunks of ice fall from thunderclouds. The
biggest one that ever fell was in
Gopaljang,Bangladesh, in 1986, it weighed
2.2 lbs.

Why I chose This Source

I chose this resource because I've read the book before, and it was easy to use for
this project. And I thought some facts in the book were actually interesting.