Boom! Splat! Kablooey!: Safe Science That's a Real Blast (Klutz) Review
Kids like to make noise and make messes. If it's a noisy mess or a messy noise, there are big bonus points. With this simple truth in mind, the eccentrics of Klutz Press have put together "Boom! Splat! Kablooey!"
But this book is a base deception. Kids think this is just about fun stuff like a little plastic jar that makes noise again and again, popping ballons, or making a huge mess with soda and salt, but these subversives at Klutz are inflicting science upon them. While the big, fun looking print talks about noise and mess, the finer print explains the science behind it. With books like this floating around, the little mess and noise makers will actually *learn* something. Worse yet, they might be inspired to go learning more from other books. If they really pay attention, they might learn enough to come up with new noise and mess making ideas, but they probably won't learn as much about cleaning up.
Kids will love this one. They'll learn from it, even when they don't expect to. They might even be inspired to learn more. Then what will we be able to do with them?
E.M. Van Court
Boom! Splat! Kablooey!: Safe Science That's a Real Blast (Klutz) Overview
We asked kids what kind of science experiments they’d like to do, and they said: ""Blow stuff up."" We asked physicists what youthful experiences inspired them to become scientists, and they said: ""We blew stuff up."" We asked parents what they thought about kids and science and blowing stuff up, and they said: ""Is it safe?"" Sure, blowing up stuff is safe — with this book, that is. It comes with all the special equipment you need to make ordinary ingredients from your kitchen go boom in impressive, yet non-destructive, style. A Geyser Tube and a Depth Charge make table salt and a bottle of soda into a backyard geyser. A bevy of special balloons turns a regular pop into a big ol’ BOOM. And the Can of A Thousand Pops is specially designed to explode again and again and again and… you get the idea. At Klutz Labs, we’re dedicated to making the loudest (yet totally safe) booms, the most spectacular (yet totally safe) splats, and the most amazing (yet totally safe) kablooeys. We’re all charged up to get kids learning about science. And have a blast doing it.
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Customer Reviews
Good book but not enough experiments - S. Milt - Boston, MA
This is a good book, but I wish it had more fun experiments in it. There are general facts about why the experiments do what they do, but seeing that we got the book to do lots of messy experiments, it didn't meet our needs.
Not for "Kids" only! - L. Myers - Wisconsin
Not only did the children have fun with the experiments, but Granddad had a "blast" doing them with the kids. As a retired biology teacher, he was careful to explain the science behind it all--made the learning great fun.
Science Class - A. Brown -
This book has lots of easy and fun experiments that can be done in a middle school/elementary classroom or at home.
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