TAKE YOUR LOVE OF BRICK BUILDING TO THE NEXT LEVEL
Brick building, science, and creativity come together like never before.
Complete special missions, finish a build before the leprechaun moves his treasure, or a wizard casts his spell. Outfit your brick buddies with the equipment needed to battle a fire dragon. Fall into the world of play, science, and imagination like never before. Discover a new side of brick building that unleashes your creativity, all while learning exciting science concepts.
-10 exciting Brick Building Challenges with experiments by science Teacher Lindsay Whitman Drewes, M.A.
-Step-by-step instructions and full-color pages
-24 additional Brick Building Challenge cards
-Idea Time: Space to sketch ideas on grid paper
-Stud Art: Get creative and learn to draw 2D art on brick studs. Create your art right inside this book!
-Free downloadable activity pages for endless fun
-Learn the science behind the experiments in easy-to-understand language.
-Experiment pages that allow builders to reflect on the build challenge and science experiment.
TAKE YOUR LOVE OF BRICK BUILDING TO THE NEXT LEVEL
Brick building, science, and creativity come together like never before.
Complete special missions, finish a build before the leprechaun moves his treasure, or a wizard casts his spell. Outfit your brick buddies with the equipment needed to battle a fire dragon. Fall into the world of play, science, and imagination like never before. Discover a new side of brick building that unleashes your creativity, all while learning exciting science concepts.
-10 exciting Brick Building Challenges with experiments by science Teacher Lindsay Whitman Drewes, M.A.
-Step-by-step instructions and full-color pages
-24 additional Brick Building Challenge cards
-Idea Time: Space to sketch ideas on grid paper
-Stud Art: Get creative and learn to draw 2D art on brick studs. Create your art right inside this book!
-Free downloadable activity pages for endless fun
-Learn the science behind the experiments in easy-to-understand language.
-Experiment pages that allow builders to reflect on the build challenge and science experiment.
Bricks and Experiments by Lindsay Whitman Drewes combines two things guaranteed to get any child excited: toy construction bricks and all things gooey, slimy and fizzy. Contained in this colourful book are ten different science experiments to get children engaging with simple chemical and physical reactions, from "the floor is lava" to "sailboat races". For each experiment, Whitman Drewes, a former middle school science teacher, provides a detailed description of the challenge, recipes for the experiment and then a full explanation of the science underpinning it. Accompanying each challenge are a array of beautifully shot photos, which add to the fun and energy of content.
The end of the book is filled with brick challenge cards of varying levels of difficultly (e.g. "build a house" and "make a marble maze"), alongside space for scientific notes and the chance for smaller hands to create stud art (with visual examples provided for guidance).
It is hard to not enjoy this book, it sets out to achieve and more. And while the Danish brand (the one beginning with L) is not mentioned explicitly in this fun picture guide, it is clear from the title and cover art that ownership of a set of yellow plastic people and multicoloured bricks is essential to engage with the experiments. Equally, the involvement of a responsible adult is also an important feature, as close to all the experiments require the use of chemicals which could be damaging to smaller hands if not used in the appropriate way.
At a push it could be argued that the demographic age range is too broad for marketing this book (it is currently targeted as suitable for ages 4-18 on a popular online marketplace), but hopefully this is something easily rectifiable and an aspect Whitman Drewes will address when she starts marketing this book.
Bricks and Experiments is a great book, one which is both fun and educational. What's not to like?
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