12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting and useful, December 2, 2000
This review is from: Teach Your Child Science : Making Science Fun for the Both of You (Paperback)
"Teach Your Child Science" is a useful and well written book.
Children are naturally curious about the world. With this book, you will help your child discover and understand aspects of astronomy, biology, chemistry, earth science, physics, and phychology.
And there is much more here than many good, simple experiments. Science is more than an area of interest; a basic understanding of science and the scientific method helps us in all sorts of ways. Shermer helps you get your child on the path to rational thinking.
Shermer, like James Randi and Carl Sagan, is a strong voice against pseudoscience and the occult. He has written a book that is a building block to make your child a clear-thinking adult.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderful book, December 12, 2004
This review is from: Teach Your Child Science : Making Science Fun for the Both of You (Paperback)
I stumbled on this in local library. Went straight home and ordered one while I used the library copy for a month. I am a tertiary educated scientist but this really spelt out how to approach science for young children. If you have ever told your enquiring child that "thats just the way it is" or put it down to a divine inspiration - then this is for you. There is no surer way of ruining your child's future enquiring scientific mind than these sorts of pseudo explanations for things that you are uneducated about! And there is plenty that I feel uneducated about despite having the most expensive and classical education that the UK could offer!
So many great moments. One is the author's memory of his father reading to him about dinosaurs and stopping to draw a picture in his mind of how big the stats really are (imagine his head coming into the top floor window of the house except his head is too big to get into the window). Another is that a vast no. of Harvard grads have wrong concept of seasonal climate cause. Fantastic 3D demos of earth/moon/sun experiments. My 4 year old was very taken with Gallileo which I would never have thought of discussing with her until I read this book.
This book single handedly changed the way I deal with questions from young children.
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