Potato Chip Science Book and Stuff
Publishing Details
Potato Chip Science Book and Stuff
By (Author) Allen Kurzweil
Workman Publishing
Workman Children's
1st September 2011
United States
Classifications
Children
Non Fiction
507.8
Physical Properties
Contains 1 Paperback / softback and 5 general merchandise items and 1 Stickers
96
Width 204mm, Height 284mm, Spine 68mm
340g
Description
Mmmm, science! Imaginative science, brilliant science, environmental science - all wrapped up in the kind of idea that comes along once in a decade. "Potato Chip Science" is the genius book and stuff that introduces dozens of experiments using potato chip bags, potato chips, lids, tubes, and spuds. Like "Pop Bottle Science" (501,0000 copies in print) and the "Hand in Hand with Nature" series, it dazzlingly marries the fun of creative (and completely safe) activities with lessons drawn from ecology, biology, forensics, acoustics, aeronautics, optics, propulsion, hydrodynamics, and more. Make a chip tube gobble like a turkey. Fire the pocket-size potato propulsion pipe. Build a balloon-powered chip mobile. Power the ingenious digital clock (it's included!) with the mysterious potato 'battery.' Create a shrunken potato head. Launch the bag blaster - and when the weather's right, go fly a potato-chip-bag kite. The book is 96 pages and filled with experiments, interesting modifications, scientific principles, and 100 per cent saturated facts.
Reviews
"Potato Chip Science makes experiments tasty for children. Most kids do not need much motivation to tear into a bag of chips. So why not come up with a way to take that natural tendency and use it to expand a child's mind more than his or her waistline" - Tulsa World
"A fantastic book of science experiments for kids to do with their parents. It's terrifically designed, and filled with fun facts and puns and silliness. Super fun!" - Goodreads.com
"A hit with booksellers." - Publishers Weekly
"An irresistibly introduction to the tasty side of science." - Mindware.com
"Entertaining, pun-filled, intriguing, creative, and appealing." - Kirkus
"Perfect for kids. (I would have gone nuts for this as a child! And who am I kidding I'm in my twenties and I still think it's pretty cool!)" - EW.com
"A new wrinkle - or should it be crinkle - on the kitchen-table science fair." - Buffalonews.com
"Betcha can't test just one." - Youngexplorers.com
"Got a kid who loves science What about potato chips Check out Potato Chip Science -- a grab bag of lessons on everything from physics to forensics, from navigation to neuroscience." - Idaho Statesman
"Holy potato chips! Batman. There's something about the crinkle of a bag of chips that is like a geek siren song." - ThinkGeek.com
"If you have a wee one with an interest in science... check out Kurzweil's latest project, the science kit in a potato chip bag." - Techcrunch.com
"Kids will get a recommended dose of fun with their lessons in physics, biology, chemistry and earth science that is, as the packaging says, 'High in saturated facts.'" - L.A. Parent
"School's in session, which means--deep breaths, parents--science fairs are just around the corner. Get kids motivated early and find some simple-to-implement, innovative ideas with Potato Chip Science" - Time Out, Chicago, IL
"There's a science-deficit among America's young and one man's cure comes packed in a potato chip bag." - CBS-TV (Philadelphia)
Author Bio
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.
