{"id":33277,"date":"2020-09-02T19:59:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T00:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=33277"},"modified":"2020-09-02T19:59:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T00:59:08","slug":"excellent-kids-stem-book-copycat-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/02\/excellent-kids-stem-book-copycat-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Excellent Kids STEM Book: Copycat Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0711251827\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0711251827&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=grlasbl0a-20&#038;linkId=38f9f782ab867487c018cb2990f941ff\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Copycat Science: Step into the shoes of the world&#8217;s greatest scientists!<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=grlasbl0a-20&#038;l=am2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0711251827\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> by Mike Barfield looks like a graphic novel, acts like a very densely packed activity book, but stealthily serves as a textbook for learning all kinds of science.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"33278\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/02\/excellent-kids-stem-book-copycat-science\/copycatscience\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/CopycatScience.jpeg?fit=300%2C401&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,401\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"CopycatScience\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/CopycatScience.jpeg?fit=224%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/CopycatScience.jpeg?fit=300%2C401&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/CopycatScience.jpeg?resize=300%2C401\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"401\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-33278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/CopycatScience.jpeg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/CopycatScience.jpeg?resize=224%2C300&amp;ssl=1 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Every page or two has something to do, using common household ingredients.  You can extract and actually see DNA from an organism, play around with air pressure, create lightning, mess around with light, and of course, achieve a deeper than usual understanding of slime.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the better home science activity books I&#8217;ve seen, and it comes at a perfect time.  For example, our school district is, for fifth grade, going to skip science for the first several weeks of Covid induced distance learning. Well, we may use this book each day during that hiatus, and thereby learn random things.  Can&#8217;t hurt!<\/p>\n<p>Strangely, the author is not a scientist, but a poet and ukulele maestro, but with excellent drawing skills.<\/p>\n<p>It is a nicely formatted book, of solid construction.*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Copycat Science: Step into the shoes of the world&#8217;s greatest scientists! by Mike Barfield looks like a graphic novel, acts like a very densely packed activity book, but stealthily serves as a textbook for learning all kinds of science. Every page or two has something to do, using common household ingredients. You can extract and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/02\/excellent-kids-stem-book-copycat-science\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Excellent Kids STEM Book: Copycat Science<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Science_Greg_Laden_Blog.png?fit=744%2C294&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-8EJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33279,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33277\/revisions\/33279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}