By first explaining how to build or set up a simple science laboratory, each title then offers experiments that use the lab and that support the National Science Education Standards.
I am always looking for ideas for science projects for kids. This book by Robert Gardner is quite nice in discussing the science and also describing projects that can be done. Each section even has a few sentences on how the ideas could be turned into an open ended science fair project. Thus far all of the books I have read in the science project genre published by Enslow Publishers have been very impressive. I only wish they sold the books as sets rather than individually. They are pretty pricey, and I have been borrowing them from the library.