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Ancient Science: 40 Time-Traveling, World-Exploring, History-Making Activities for Kids

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I love the projects in this book. As a homeschool mom, I like to teach about the "history" of subjects and not just the usual science basics. I want my kids to know how science was started, and who helped develop some of the modern day advancements in science that we use today. This book is great for teaching the beginnings of science. Measure the earth with Erastothenes, find out just what it was that made Archimedes cry "Eureka!". This is definitely worth owning if you'd like to help your children "see" what the ancient scientists saw.

I purchased this book to utilize with our homeschooling curriculum "Introduction to World History." Ancient Science covers science from pre historic time to the discovery of the Americas. Each section covers a particular period in history with experiments to compliment the historical setting. We are planning to use Ancient Science, Usborne Book of World History and Usborne Time Traveler for our science and history curriculum this coming fall.

This book is great because it relates science to history, with lots of easy experiements & demonstrations to try.

So I was getting ready to purchase this book for my soon to be 2nd grader. I read the first few projects and they are all littered with implied evolution and that events happened millions of years ago and that it took thousands of years for the first man to figure out that a sharp stick pokes holes easier than a dull one. Are you kidding me? I'm sure Adam already knew that on the first day and it would be ridiculous to even suggest that it took half a year to figure out, might as well thousands/never. Any four year old could tell you that a sharp stick is going to poke a hole in something easier than a dull one without ever being formally taught, or perhaps all the children I know are geniuses, because according to this book they should have never been able to figure that out in their lifetime without someone to tell them?

I would love this book if it did not mislead young minds into believing such fairy tales. This should be a factual book and I'm surprised that any Christian curriculum would encourage the purchase of books that do that. Its unfortunate because it would have gone well with our study of Ancient Times and the activities appear to be fun and easy, but I can not financially support the author by purchasing this book because of the misleading comments in this book. I urge parents to consider that every dollar you spend is a vote for a product and views/opinions of the people who created it to spread.