Potato Chip Science

29 Incredible Experiments

Allen Kurzweil (Autor)

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96 Seiten

2010
Workman Children's
978-0-7611-4825-8 (ISBN)

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Introduces dozens of experiments using potato chip bags, potato chips, lids, tubes, and spuds. This book includes experiments, modifications, scientific principles, and saturated facts.

You won’t believe what you can learn from a potato chip! There’s a new branch of science in town—Potato Chip Science—a grab-bag of nourishing lessons in everything from physics to forensics, from navigation to neuroscience. Packaged up in actual potato chip bag is an experimental world cooked up for kids who like science, and snacks, and snacking on science. Filled with whole brain goodness, this kit features 29 different snacktivities based entirely on the planet’s most miraculous munchies. We bet you can’t try just one!You won’t believe what’s in the bag! ·96-page book ·Spud-powered sound chip ·Potato propulsion pipe ·Spud-powered clock ·Electrodes ·Optical stickers ·Biodegradable packaging chips ·Wire connectors ·Googly eyes ·Eco-friendly starch knife

Allen Kurzweil is the author of Leon and the Champion Chip—the second in a series of young-reader novels—in which he first explored the idea of a science curriculum based on the potato chip. Mr. Kurzweil has also written two award-winning novels for adults, A Case of Curiosities and The Grand Complication. Currently a fellow at the John Nicholas Brown Center for the Study of American Civilization at Brown University, he lives in Providence, Rhode Island, with his wife and son, Max, his potato chip science collaborator and beta-tester.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	22.11.2010
Sprache	englisch
Maße	204 x 284 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher ► Naturwissenschaft / Technik
ISBN-10	0-7611-4825-6 / 0761148256
ISBN-13	978-0-7611-4825-8 / 9780761148258
Zustand	Neuware