Title: How but not why
Product review: I bought this for my daughter for Christmas 2004. She was a little too young for it at the time, but we have been trying to use in now. Yes, it tells how to build apparatus and yes, it has brief descriptions of how to setup and run simple experiments. What is lacking is a coherent explanation of why to do the experiments, why the experiments work, and what scientific principle is being illustrated. This book may be useful as an aid to teachers who already have introduced the scientific concepts to a class, but for a kid trying to learn by doing, it is sorely lacking. I was disappointed and so was my daughter.The perils of buying books on-line I suppose. If I had actually looked through the book, I would not have bought it.
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