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DK
Kitchen Science
Author: Chris Maynard
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley
Product: Book (48 pages)
Ages: 8 and up
Cost: $17.95 |
| Get this: a lemon floats in water, unless you peel
the rind. Sounds crazy, but it’s true. The rind is full of thousands
of tiny air bubbles. If you’re itching to know more, check out
Kitchen Science, with more than 50 fantastic experiments. Using easy-to-find
materials, you can cement sugar cubes together, make icky green goo,
and something that sounds really tedious—separate salt from
fine-ground pepper. Science basics fill you in on the hows and whys
of these experiments. Remember, if you see the exclamation point next
to an experiment, make sure you read the instructions, twice. |
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Shayla
Redlin
Age 8
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I think the projects in this book were fun!
Most of them were not too hard to do, or too easy. Most of the projects
were “medium”. The instructions were easy to follow.
What I liked most about the book was actually doing the projects.
What I liked least was that the steps weren’t numbered. I
liked the picture of the goo on the front cover of the book. I learned
how to make goo and that a lemon floats unless you peel off the
skin. I had lots of fun doing the projects. The book is worth spending
money on and I wouldn’t change anything about the book. The
one word I would use to describe this book is: fun! I would give
it a score of 9.5 out of 10. I really liked it and other kids would
like it too.
(Originally published in the Jan/Feb
2002 issue of YES Mag.) |
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