From: Hermit (virus@hermit.net)
Date: Mon Oct 06 2003 - 14:23:17 MDT
On this topic, the best experimental science books for children I know are:
1) The New UNESCO Source Book for Science Teaching, 254 pages, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 1979, Dfl. 21.60 from TOOL; also from UNESCO, 7 Place de Fontenoy, 75700 Paris, France; low-cost Asian edition available to countries in Asia from Charles E. Tuttle Company, 2-6, Suido l-chome, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan 112.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9231010581/thechurchofvirusA
2) Guidebook to Constructing Inexpensive Science Teaching Equipment, three volumes, 968 pages total, by the Inexpensive Science Teaching Equipment Project, 1972, Science Teaching Center, University of Maryland, out of print.
3) The Boy Electrician, 403 pages, Alfred P. Morgan, 1913-1940 (or later), Reprinted by Lindsay Publications, No. 21648 ... $19.95
Ref http://www.lindsaybks.com/bks/boyelec/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1559181648/thechurchofvirusA
4) Science Is: A source book of fascinating facts, projects and activities, 515 pages, Susan V. Bosak, ISBN: 0590740709, $14
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0590740709/thechurchofvirusA
And while not particularly experimental, the best all round introductory science book remains:
Lancelot Hogben's Science for the Citizen (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393063240/thechurchofvirusA)
I used to own theses until a made the terrible mistake of lending a skanky bitch running a Montessori school most of them (along with a few other books) in the hope that she'd realize the science teaching could be even more fun than making mudpies.
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