Yeah! Science is Fun!!!
HOW
IT'S MADE, COSMOS, DIRTY JOBS, BILL NYE, MYTHBUSTERS and... the
DIRTMEISTER! There is just so much cool science that is available now
for kids (and adults). And it's NOT just science and math, but edu-tainment.
What
I love about edu-tainment is how easy it makes it for kids (and moms) to absorb
information. By making it fun and colorful you get science in easy to understand and digest nuggets.
In this book readers will flip their way through all kinds of earthly questions and answers. They'll find out about Earthquakes, Minerals, Volcanoes, Fossils and more. The format is colorful and like a sophisticated comic book with plenty of action and information. Even the paper is pleasant to touch with it's heavy slick feel.
I LOVED:: the bright colorful format and the titles of the different sections. The section on carbon dating, for example, is called 'The Clocks in the Rocks'. It's a cleverness kids and adults can appreciate.
OTHER CONDENSED NOTES
--I don't having reading numbers on this book yet. They just aren't out.
--If your reader is young you might have to sit down with them for a moment and go over the format. In places the 'dialog' and flow of the story is split on the same pages. For example, in Chapter 3 in the top half of the pages show the DirtMeister is talking to his buddy, Digger, and they are setting up probes along a fault line. The bottom half of the pages has a dialog between the Meister and a girl from Japan that wants to find out what causes earthquakes. The backgrounds of the two storylines are different so that you don't get confused, but a new reader might need to be shown this.
--the science comes in levels. To stick with our Earthquake example, kids can keep to the simple stuff, or they can learn about S-waves and P-waves. There's even an experiment to use to help lock-down understand of the differences.
RECOMMEND. This would be a good book for the home or classroom shelves. Libraries, of course.
In this book readers will flip their way through all kinds of earthly questions and answers. They'll find out about Earthquakes, Minerals, Volcanoes, Fossils and more. The format is colorful and like a sophisticated comic book with plenty of action and information. Even the paper is pleasant to touch with it's heavy slick feel.
I LOVED:: the bright colorful format and the titles of the different sections. The section on carbon dating, for example, is called 'The Clocks in the Rocks'. It's a cleverness kids and adults can appreciate.
OTHER CONDENSED NOTES
--I don't having reading numbers on this book yet. They just aren't out.
--If your reader is young you might have to sit down with them for a moment and go over the format. In places the 'dialog' and flow of the story is split on the same pages. For example, in Chapter 3 in the top half of the pages show the DirtMeister is talking to his buddy, Digger, and they are setting up probes along a fault line. The bottom half of the pages has a dialog between the Meister and a girl from Japan that wants to find out what causes earthquakes. The backgrounds of the two storylines are different so that you don't get confused, but a new reader might need to be shown this.
--the science comes in levels. To stick with our Earthquake example, kids can keep to the simple stuff, or they can learn about S-waves and P-waves. There's even an experiment to use to help lock-down understand of the differences.
RECOMMEND. This would be a good book for the home or classroom shelves. Libraries, of course.
Pam~
Reading Information:
Page Count: 128
no reading information currently available
--review copy
**do check out national geo's videos
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/videos/
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/videos/
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