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Ancient Science: 40 Time-Traveling, World-Exploring, History-Making Activities for Kids Paperback – Illustrated, January 17, 2003

by Jim Wiese (Author), Ed Shems (Illustrator)

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Dig into the science of ancient times and unearth amazing discoveries!
* Have you ever wondered where paper comes from, who made the first known maps, or how the ancient Egyptians were able to build the pyramids?
* Would you like to make your own sundial, discover how to detect earthquakes, or learn to write in hieroglyphics?
* Are you looking for great ideas for your next science fair project?

If you answered "Yes" to any of these questions, then Ancient Science is for you! From Greek lighthouses and Roman bridges to Chinese kites and Mesopotamian soap, you'll investigate some of the greatest scientific discoveries and the people who introduced them to the world. Dozens of fun-packed activities help you see for yourself how the earliest humans cultivated plants, why instruments make different sounds, how fireworks get their explosive power, and much more. All of the projects are safe and easy to do, and all you need is everyday stuff from around the house. So step back in time and take an amazing journey with Ancient Science!

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Dig into the science of ancient times and unearth amazing discoveries!

Have you ever wondered where paper comes from, who made the first known maps, or how the ancient Egyptians were able to build the pyramids?
Would you like to make your own sundial, discover how to detect earthquakes, or learn to write in hieroglyphics?
Are you looking for great ideas for your next science fair project?

If you answered "Yes" to any of these questions, then Ancient Science is for you! From Greek lighthouses and Roman bridges to Chinese kites and Mesopotamian soap, you’ll investigate some of the greatest scientific discoveries and the people who introduced them to the world. Dozens of fun-packed activities help you see for yourself how the earliest humans cultivated plants, why instruments make different sounds, how fireworks get their explosive power, and much more. All of the projects are safe and easy to do, and all you need is everyday stuff from around the house. So step back in time and take an amazing journey with Ancient Science!

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Dig into the science of ancient times and unearth amazing discoveries!

Have you ever wondered where paper comes from, who made the first known maps, or how the ancient Egyptians were able to build the pyramids?
Would you like to make your own sundial, discover how to detect earthquakes, or learn to write in hieroglyphics?
Are you looking for great ideas for your next science fair project?

If you answered "Yes" to any of these questions, then Ancient Science is for you! From Greek lighthouses and Roman bridges to Chinese kites and Mesopotamian soap, you'll investigate some of the greatest scientific discoveries and the people who introduced them to the world. Dozens of fun-packed activities help you see for yourself how the earliest humans cultivated plants, why instruments make different sounds, how fireworks get their explosive power, and much more. All of the projects are safe and easy to do, and all you need is everyday stuff from around the house. So step back in time and take an amazing journey with Ancient Science!

Grade Level : 4 - 7
Item Weight : 11.2 ounces
Paperback : 122 pages
ISBN-10 : 0471215953
ISBN-13 : 978-0471215950
Product Dimensions : 7.03 x 0.34 x 9.94 inches
Publisher : Wiley; 1st Edition (January 17, 2003)
Reading level : 8 - 12 years
Language: : English

Best-sellers rank #326,206 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
#218 in Science for Kids
#275 in Children's Science Experiment Books
#590 in History of Technology

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Fundacational!

Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2019

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This is a great book!

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My kids' mom

Great way to teach hands-on science to children

Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2006

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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.

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K. Alphs

Great Way to Correlate World History With Science

Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2007

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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.

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2017

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wonderful resource!

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Amy - homeschooling mom

For us, not much of interest

Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2013

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I was hoping to use this as a base of a history/science/archaeology unit but it isn't going to work for my 9 year old daughter. I think this book would be OK for a young child that is interested in history and has not done much in the way of hands on science demos. My daughter has done many of the these activities in other contexts before and is not very interested in doing the others.

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Niksk

Great book for kids

Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2014

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My 9 yo loves the book. He read it without any "prompt" from my wife or me. Quite an unusual behavior for him

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Hall

Wonderful Resource

Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2009

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

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Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2011

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.

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Nice book...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 13, 2019

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Good book, some interesting experiments and some basic ones. Good for historical info...

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Meg R.

Great supplement for Ancient History!

Reviewed in Canada on March 18, 2013

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We are studying Ancient history this year, and this book is exactly the supplement I was looking for. Not only did I want to teach my children ancient history, I wanted to incorporate ancient advances in math and science along the way, and this book lays that out quite nicely. Each chapter deals with a certain time frame or geographical area, and each activity gives quite a bit of background information on how this science was discovered, used, and by whom. Directions are given for replicating your own version of the discovery/experiment.

I would recommend this to anyone looking to give their children a taste of what the ancients were capable of, with hands-on activities.

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