Potato Chip Science

Allen Kurzweil

ISBN 10: 0761148256 / ISBN 13: 9780761148258

Editore: Workman Publishing Company, 2010

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• Titolo: Potato Chip Science
• Editore: Workman Publishing Company
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0761148256
• ISBN 13: 9780761148258
• Rilegatura: misc_supplies
• Condizione: Good

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Riassunto

Snack on science! Make a science of snacks! Potato Chip Science is the book and kit thats an irresistible introduction to science for 8- to 12-year-olds. Here are 29 incredible experimentsplus one edible projectthat use potato chips, potatoes, potato chip bags, tubes, and lids. Included in the bag are a 96-page two-color book and a dozen items that kids can use for the following snacktivities:

Bag Blaster - Bird Feeder - Chipmobile - Chip Analyzer - Chip-Ship Challenge - Chip-Tube Gobbler - Color Wheel - Compass - Composter - Confetti Can-non - CSI Detective Kit - Dancing Chips - Electric Wave - Flipper - Hydrofoil - Kissing Tubes - Kite - Mini Extermi-tater - Potato Bender - Potato Chip Crunchies - Potato Battery - Saucer Tosser - Shrunken (Potato) Head - Signal Mirror - Sound Spinner - Spud Crud - Spuddy Buddy - Walkie-Talkie - Windmill

Product Features:
-  96-page book providing step-by-step instructions
-  Bag that can be turned into a kite, compass, or hydofoil
-  Digital sound chip that plays Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star . . .   powered by a potato! (spud not included)
-  6-inch propulsion pipe that launches spud pellets 50 feet!
-  Biodegradable starch base (makes a great Chipmobile chassis!)
-  6 optical stickers
-  6 chip lids (the wheels of the Chipmobile!)
-  Spud-powered digital clock (once again, potato not included)
-  4 zinc and copper electrodes
-  Googly eyes (Yeah!)
-  Wire connectors
-  Eco-friendly starch knife (to carve the Spuddy Buddy and Shrunken Potato Head)
-  Packing chips (used as ammunition for the Confetti Can-non!)

Manufactured in the United States of America.
Potato Chip Science received the Gold Medal from The National Parenting Publication Awards, and a Gold "Brain Child" Medal from Tillywig.

Informazioni sull?autore

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.