We are currently reading How the Body Works and doing some of the many experiments suggested. I really like the How it Works and The Way it Works books by Readers Digest and DK, which are recommended in The Well-Trained Mind. I wish I'd discovered them earlier as some of what is covered in these books, my children have already learned from other sources. Tessa lost interest in How Nature Works because of that so we left off part way through the book.
How the Body Works has enough detail new to us to keep us interested. When we've finished it, I think I will preview the other How it Works books we own (How Nature Works and The Way Science Works - which is mostly Physics) and a similar book on volcanoes, mark the pages that cover topics Tessa and Josiah are unfamiliar with, then work through just those pages with the children.
After that (next year, I suppose), Real Science 4 Kids: Chemistry II, which I have already purchased.
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