Contains 32 fun experiments you can do with everyday items, along with some bigger projects, templates and other fun things to make, create and experiment with. Balance ping pong balls in mid air, make un-popable bubbles and even a rocket from a plastic bottle. Ages 6-14 (some adult supervision required). LIMITED STOCK – 50% OFF!

The Total Wellbeing Diet, developed by CSIRO, is a long-term eating plan for weight loss and improved health. This easy-to-use, scientifically tested and nutritionally balanced diet can really work by keeping your hunger satisfied. With 85 mouth-watering recipes and 12 weeks of varied meal plans to get you started, this book contains everything you need to know about the Total Wellbeing Diet how to start, what to cook and how to keep the weight off for good.

Following on from the phenomenal success of The CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet, comes Book 2 of the diet. This companion volume provides everything you need to keep on track with your healthy new lifestyle: a summary of the essential principles of the diet; over 80 delicious new recipes, together with healthy ideas for taking your lunch to work and tips on eating out; and a simple, 'do anywhere exercise program.

Complementing the hugely popular Rokit water rocket kit (see Explore), this manual provides 46 pages of activities and experiments to maximise fun and learning for rampant rocketeers. Investigate rocket speed, drag, launch height, trajectory, landing systems and heaps more even make your own wind tunnel. Includes 22 photocopy-friendly activity sheets great for teachers' or fun at home. Heaps of ideas to get an even bigger blast out of your Rokit!

Tops for teachers!

Discover Australian astronomy with Ragbir Bhathal and his daughter Jenny in this engaging youth-friendly title. Features clear text with fact boxes, historical info and engaging images including Aboriginal and standard celestial maps, diagrams and NASA photos. Illustrated projects and activities make for a fun and interactive journey into the night skies, and a great teaching resource.‘Perfect for 2009 International Year of Astronomy!’ Ages 10+.

This quality title mixes one part science and four parts wicked fun to impress all your mates with fun and exciting science using only household items. It's packed with facts, knowledge and trivia that fascinates kids, and photographs of each activity to make the whole process easy, but most of all fun! From the ABC. Book 1 contains science tricks, demonstrations and simple activities.

This clever book provides 50 purr-fectly woof-worthy activities to try with your pets and other common animals, while learning all about them and their behaviour. Each activity was created with the help of a vet and there’s even a section on animal ethics, so it’s safe and fun for you and your pets.

From bears to bees, snakes to spiders, tigers to ticks and panthers to piranhas, this engrossing (and occasionally gruesome) book reveals the most venomous and deadly animals around the world.

If it smells bad, feels gross or looks disgusting, you can find out how to make it in this book, and learn something along the way. Not for the faint hearted or squeamish, these 50 projects explore everything from your own gross body to the gross outdoors.

This quality title mixes one part science and four parts wicked fun to impress all your mates with fun and exciting science using only household items. It's packed with facts, knowledge and trivia that fascinates kids, and photographs of each activity to make the whole process easy, but most of all fun! From the ABC. Book 2 contains crazy inventions and other things you can make.

Amazing value, cute illustrations and straightforward explanations make this one of our favourite experiment books. Make a volcano, eat like a dinosaur and 99 other activities.

Mystery + clues + suspects = who dun it? This engaging series is packed with real science, fun activities, cute cartoons and forensic facts from two of Australia’s top youth science authors. Age 7+ In this mystery, Zac and Hannah are at the Clairesville Museum as Millie Nyall is about to unveil her most exciting new exhibit: the gold burial mask of the famous pharaoh Ramses II. But the mask has vanished! For teacher’s notes for the series hit the Pan Macmillan website

Mystery + clues + suspects = who dun it? This engaging series is packed with real science, fun activities, cute cartoons and forensic facts from two of Australia’s top youth science authors. Age 7+ In this mystery, Hannah’s rock star idol Josh Jamieson is in town. But as Zac and Hannah emerge from his packed concert, they discover that there’s been an explosion at the Central Bank next door. And ten million dollars is missing!

Age 7+

For teacher’s notes for the series hit the Pan Macmillan website.

Mystery + clues + suspects = who dun it? Suspicious new art teachers, famous racehorses, Zacs uncle and shady criminals are just some of the characters caught up in these fun forensic mysteries. Engaging titles packed with real science, fun activities, cute cartoons and forensic facts from two of Australias top youth science authors. Age 7+ For teacher’s notes for the series hit the Pan Macmillan website.

Age 7+

For teacher’s notes for the series hit the Pan Macmillan website.

Mystery + clues + suspects = who dun it? Suspicious new art teachers, famous racehorses, Zacs uncle and shady criminals are just some of the characters caught up in this fun forensic mystery. An engaging title packed with real science, fun activities, cute cartoons and forensic facts. Age 7+.

Age 7+

For teacher’s notes for the series hit the Pan Macmillan website.

How innovation, science and technology have transformed millions of lives and made millionaires of their inventors. From nanotech to mobile phones, its inspiration for the modern inventor. More great reading from Double Helixs favourite authors.

From the Curiosity Show’s Deane Hutton, this book is completely jammed with 15 sections spanning electronics, physics, chemistry and more with weeks-worth of activities, experiments and fun facts for those who like their science hands-on. Great fun for students and ideas aplenty for teachers.

Where do penguins go to dance? What is it like to sleep in an igloo? And, how do you go to the toilet in Antarctica? Double Helix Scientriffic editor and photographer, Tanya Patrick, travelled to the coldest, windiest, driest and most isolated continent on Earth to find out. Discover the answers and experience the magic of Antarctica in her book, Polar Eyes. Fantastic images, interviews with researchers, hands-on activities and more in this beautifully-designed and illustrated book bring Antarctica to life for readers aged 8 and above. Coming soon. Please contact 02 6276 6306 for further details.

Discover palaeontology, geology, dinosaurs and space science, then eat the results of 18 fun activities with this innovative science cookbook. Kids will be drooling to learn as you plate up Stegosaurus Birthday Cake or try a light snack with Honeycomb Pumice. A tasty addition to any classroom or kitchen.