Synopsis
Parents and kids can choose from 50 tested-and-proven activities that require only common food-related items. Each activity includes step-by-step instructions and illustrations, helpful hints and a real-world explanation of the relevant theory, principle, or law behind the activity. 100 illustrations.
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From School Library Journal
Grade 5-8. Having youngsters learn basic science while they wait for their pizza, pasta, or burger to arrive is an attractive idea. This collection of experiments uses a variety of materials found in restaurants from straws to beverages to spoons, napkins, water glasses, and salt shakers. The projects cover a wide range of possibilities from creating an optical illusion using a rolled-up place mat, to making exploding straws, to extinguishing a candle with carbon dioxide from soda. Brief histories of restaurants and certain foods such as potato chips, Fig Newtons, and ice cream are provided. Although the format is spacious, the illustrations appear to be computer clip art and the same images are repeated several times throughout the text. Unfortunately, the only safety precaution is buried in the section about candles. In addition, some of the materials needed for the projects are poorly chosen (beer and matchboxes). Vickie Cobb's Science Experiments You Can Eat (HarperCollins, 1984) and Nancy Blakey's Lotions, Potions, and Slime (Tricycle, 1996) are better selections for libraries.?Kathryn Kosiorek, Cuyahoga County Public Library, Brooklyn, OH
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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