The Curious World of Kitchen Science Set
A pack of four books exploring the key principles of everyday science with fun experiments.
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+ Full descriptionGet ready to play (and learn!) with your food! The Curious World of Kitchen Science series explores the key principles and practice of everyday science by using analogies, experiments and research with food and drink in the home kitchen environment.
Each title covers a branch of science and demonstrates its principles through applied science, offering a unique, fun and interactive approach to learning for both teenage and adult readers.
Reading level varies from child to child, but we recommend these books for ages 10-16.
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Read more on our blog:
Are you hungry for some science? In these edited extracts from The Curious World of Kitchen Science series, try your hand at creating a density rainbow, and learn some other cool facts from the worlds of physics, biology and maths: Kitchen Science Experiment: Create a density rainbow
Details
Set | July 2021 | $ 99.00ISBN: SETCWKS
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Colour illustrations, Colour photographs
Features
- Explains principles of biology, chemistry, maths and physics using engaging examples from the kitchen
- Includes easy-to-follow experiments
- Packed with fun facts, illustrations and boxes
We have also created Teacher Notes for The Physics of Popcorn to support the use of this book in the classroom. These are available as a free PDF download: Teacher Notes (363 KB)
Authors
Dr Katie Steckles is a mathematician who delivers talks, workshops, and events on YouTube and on TV/radio. She also writes mathematical puzzles and articles for books, magazines, programs, and blogs. In 2016 she won the UK’s Joshua Phillips Award for Innovation in Science Engagement.
Dr. Jamie Gallagher has a degree in chemical physics and a PhD in chemistry and electrical engineering. He is an award-winning scientist and science communicator, was named one of the “100 leading practicing scientists in the UK” by the Science Council, and is recognised as one of the “175 Faces of Chemistry” by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Dr Aidan Randle-Conde has a PhD in particle physics from Brunel University, England, and was based at the SLAC laboratory in California. He held a postdoctoral position with SMU, Texas, and worked at CERN, Switzerland, where he helped to discover the Higgs boson. He then completed another postdoctoral position at ULB in Brussels and started a project called the Ministry of Sense, which performs in schools and public spaces to recreate the Higgs discovery.
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