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Title: The Mad Scientist Handbook: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Making Your Own Rock Candy, Anti-Gravity Machine, Edible Glass, Rubber Eggs, Fake Blood, Green Slime, and Much Much More by Joey Green ISBN: 0-399-52593-9 Publisher: Perigee Pub. Date: 10 April, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.14 (7 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Science Teacher Recommendation
Comment: Smokebombs, stink bombs, slime and other gross interesting things fill this book. There are litterally hundred of interesting facts that go with each experiment. Don't worry about not doing well in chemistry, the directions are simple and the experiments are safe when the directions are followed.
Rating: 3
Summary: Some good ideas...
Comment: I liked some of the ideas. I like the interesting facts, and found the science explanations are accurate and very complete. I like the choice of experiments, and most of them are fun. (although I'm not sure all of them are especially safe for the younger mad scientist set), but I was disappointed that a decent number of the experiments simply don't work. I understand there's a margin of error, but as an adult (and a science teacher), When I can't make experiments work, I pity the poor children with the book.
Rating: 2
Summary: How to Cause Mayhem and Get in Trouble
Comment: Some of these "science experiments" are simple and relatively harmless. Others provide unsupervised children with recipes for disaster. The book should come with a child-proof cover or a trigger-lock. Not that it contains plans for thermonuclear devices, but several of the projects can damage property or cause injury if not properly carried out.
While each project has a set of fascinating "scientific" tidbits & trivia to go with it, the book is almost entirely lacking in helping children understand or use the scientific method or understand much of the basis for what they are doing. This is a "Mad Scientists' Club" handbook, just a several steps short of the Anarchists' Cookbook, but headed in that general direction.
On the other hand, parents may find themselves reliving their own nerdy & awkward years helping their children be "mad scientists." It could be great fun. But keep the book locked up. A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing!
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Title: The Mad Scientist Handbook: How to Make Your Own Disappearing Ink, Exploding Egg, Smoking Fingertips, Flying Potato, Rain Machine, X-Ray Glasses, and Much More by Joey Green ISBN: 0399527753 Publisher: Perigee Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Backyard Ballistics by William Gurstelle ISBN: 1556523750 Publisher: Chicago Review Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Vacuum Bazookas, Electric Rainbow Jelly, and 27 Other Saturday Science Projects. by Neil A. Downie ISBN: 0691009864 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: Chemical Magic by Leonard A. Ford ISBN: 0486676285 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 27 July, 1993 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: The Everything Kids' Science Experiments Book: Boil Ice, Float Water, Measure Gravity-Challenge the World Around You! (Everything Kids Series) by Tom Mark Robinson ISBN: 1580625576 Publisher: Adams Media Corporation Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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