Contents

Table of Contents 1
How Will This Book Help You Kid? 3
What is science? 4
The Natural Sciences 4
The Social Sciences 4
The Formal Sciences 4
What does a Scientist do? 6
Scientists Do Many Things: 7
What Exactly Do Scientists Do? 7
Putting It All Together 7
Some common crosscutting concepts 8
Patterns 8
Stability & change 8
Cause & Effect 8
Scale, Proportion & Quantity 8
Matter & Energy 8
Systems – 8
Structure & Function 8
Our Universe 9
How we look into the universe: 10
Solar System 10
We can categorize these planets in two groups that are: 10
Earth: 13
Earth circling around the sun 13
Spacecraft Earth 13
Layers around the Globe 14
 As per NASA reports, the gases in Earth's atmosphere comprise: 14
Earth's atmosphere has covered by five main layers: 14
The Troposphere 14
The Stratosphere 14
The Mesosphere 15
The Thermosphere 15
The Exosphere 15
Fun Facts: 16
Glossary 17
How Will This Book Help Your Child?
If need is the mother of invention then curiosity is the father of knowledge.
Everything that we learn is result of curiosities resulting from observation,
analysis, and desire to inculcate certain traits in oneself. Children are the most
impressionable beings in human race, they observe very closely, ask questions,
and wish to get those answers as soon as possible.

As a guardian, it is our job to direct their curiosities in right direction. This book is
written with an intent to answer some of the most basic questions that might be
puzzling your child. Here, we have tried to address as many questions as possible
in simplest manner that will resolve some of the knots in their mind. It will help
them develop a more rational and logical insight into their surroudings.

Starting from the basic definition of science, we have tried to cover every basic
concept. As the reader moves ahead from one chapter to another, they will
discover the secret of how things work around them and what role science plays
in creation, destruction, and maintenance of the world around them.