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The Book of Terrifyingly Awesome Technology: 27 Experiments for Young Scientists by Sean Connolly
kateteaching7and8's review
4.0
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Thank you to the publisher @workmanpub and the author #seanconnolly for sharing an advance copy of The Book of Terrifyingly Awesome Technology: 27 Experiments for Young Scientists with the #kidlitexchange network. This book is set to be released on September 17, 2019. All opinions are my own.
This is a fun and interactive science book. The book has 26 chapters each devoted to a different interesting and terrifyingly awesome science concept. Each chapter includes the following: an introduction, a section titled "How Life is Better", a section on related technology, then how it is "terrifyingly awesome", and finally an experiment for the reader to try. The book also includes sidebars and cool illustrations.
I LOVE science. I first developed my love of science in middle school and I think I would have ate this book up had it been out when I was still in school. The voice of the book is fun, humorous, and intelligent. Each chapter is jam-packed with information. I have read other reviews and noted that several readers didn't like the "terrifyingly awesome" sections of the book calling them conspiracy theories and science fiction. I have to admit some of the ideas are a little out there, but at the same time several are not out of the realm of possibility. Additionally, several things that were considered science fiction 50 years ago, are now just science. I also think that an important skill for young readers is to think critically and the "terrifyingly awesome" section could be great for starting discussions. This would be the perfect book to use in a science camp or a science elective.
Thank you to the publisher @workmanpub and the author #seanconnolly for sharing an advance copy of The Book of Terrifyingly Awesome Technology: 27 Experiments for Young Scientists with the #kidlitexchange network. This book is set to be released on September 17, 2019. All opinions are my own.
This is a fun and interactive science book. The book has 26 chapters each devoted to a different interesting and terrifyingly awesome science concept. Each chapter includes the following: an introduction, a section titled "How Life is Better", a section on related technology, then how it is "terrifyingly awesome", and finally an experiment for the reader to try. The book also includes sidebars and cool illustrations.
I LOVE science. I first developed my love of science in middle school and I think I would have ate this book up had it been out when I was still in school. The voice of the book is fun, humorous, and intelligent. Each chapter is jam-packed with information. I have read other reviews and noted that several readers didn't like the "terrifyingly awesome" sections of the book calling them conspiracy theories and science fiction. I have to admit some of the ideas are a little out there, but at the same time several are not out of the realm of possibility. Additionally, several things that were considered science fiction 50 years ago, are now just science. I also think that an important skill for young readers is to think critically and the "terrifyingly awesome" section could be great for starting discussions. This would be the perfect book to use in a science camp or a science elective.
etienne02's review
3.0
2,5/5. This books present various evolution of technology, showing how it can help us, how it works, how it can possibly go wrong and finish with a small experiment, then start over with another technology. The canvas is always the same so it's very easy to go through. The problem with it is that everything seem force together, the experiment is something a bit far away from the actual information, the how it can go wrong seem sometimes push a bit too far, closer to science-fiction, then actual science and the informative part is sometimes a bit dense considering the fact that this is presented for kids, with easy to do experiment, there's no collusion between the age require to do and enjoy the experiment and the age to actually read and understand some of the informations in it. It should have been through more editing before being publish.
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