Scientific American's Young Reader's Book Award National
Parenting Magazine Award: THE GOLD
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Years of testing with children has produced this carefully crafted set of doable projects. Build, Build, Build!
PLUS a relay and a galvanometer. Accept the challenge of "The Gray Matter Quest". The CD-ROM presents the central concepts behind the projects through the use delightful animations and on-the-fly 3D rendered imaging. Item #7902........... list price $29.95 USA |
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a spinning motor
a clicking telegraph
a flashing generator| Step-by-step, highly visual instructions lead a child successfully through each invention. The CD-ROM compliments the book and can be used to direct a single child, a group of students at a work station, or an entire classroom step-by-step through each project. Incredible illustrations along with the clarity of animations present central scientific concepts, allowing children to discover the "why" as well as the "how". Watch a capacitor charge and discharge, zoom into and view the interior workings of a motor, visualize the collection of a signal by the electrons in a antenna, watch an inductor slow down the movement of electrons, visualize the inner workings of each project and each component with beautiful 3-D animations and on-the-fly manipulations. If a still picture is worth a thousand words, then what might the added extensions of sound, motion and immediate feedback be worth? The use of everyday materials demystifies the way common electronic components work. |
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