Explorabook

by Cassidy, John

This exploratory book is a compact museum and a fun lab in itself. It rightly claims to contain a Kids' Science Museum not only to be read but to be practically explored. This Explorabook has over 50 activities plus the tools to do nearly all of them. All that the reader needs to supply is the world around us, and a little curiosity. Even those students who dread science lectures will not only start taking interest in them but will begin to understand them easily. The book is the winner of Parents' Choice Award by the Parents' Choice Foundation (MD, USA) established in 1978. The Explorabook was created over a period of nearly 3 years of intensive collaboration between the editors of Klutz and the staff of the San Francisco Exploratorium. [The Exploratorium, a place of scientific imagination, was begun in 1969 by Dr. Frank Oppenheimer. The museum was founded on Dr. Oppenheimer's practical conviction that nothing is ever learned until it is self-taught, and that the preferred position fo