National Geographic Kids Books for the Science Lover
*sponsored posts & contains affiliate links
If you have a science lover on your gift list, National Geographic Kids Books has two brand new books for ages 8 – 12 that will help put the FUN into science! National Geographic Kids Brain Games: The Mind-Blowing Science of Your Amazing Brain is based on the National Geographic Channel hit BRAIN GAMES. Edible Science: Experiments You Can Eat brings chemistry into the kitchen. We were sent a copy of each to check out and they are pretty awesome!
National Geographic Kids Brain Games
- Ages 8-12
- Author: Jennifer Swanson
- Softcover
- 112 pages; 120 color photographs
- 8 1/2″ x 10 7/8″
- © 2015
A companion to the hit show on the National Geographic Channel, it is all about the mind-blowing science of the amazing brain. This interactive book delves into the most powerful and complex supercomputer ever built – the different parts of the brain, how it works, brainy news nuggets from a neuroscientist, fun facts and brain games and challenges just like on the TV show.
5 Chapters include:
- Cruising Along the Cerebral Highway – Learn how your brain turns your senses into thought.
- Down Memory Lane – Get an inside look at how the brain makes memories.
- Emotion Expressway – Learn how your brain deals with emotions.
- Decision Drive – See how the brain really makes choices.
- Action Avenue – See how the brain is the director of all you do!
The end of the book includes Brain Maps as well as a list of websites to check out and books to read.
Available online at National Geographic Store and Amazon.
Edible Science: Experiments You Can Eat
- Ages 8-12
- Author: Jodi Wheeler-Toppen
- Softcover
- 80 pages; 80 color illustrations
- 8 1/2″ x 11″
- © 2015
This book encourages kids to cook up some solid science! Using food as the tools (or ingredients), curious kids become saucy scientists who measure, weigh, and combine their way through the kitchen. Dozens of thoroughly tested, fun, edible experiments are paired with helpful photos, diagrams, scientific facts, sub-experiments and more. Whether it’s measuring pH balance with Color Changing Cookies, observing osmosis with Fruit and Nut Cous-Cous or understanding how to reduce air pressure with smiley-faced marshmallows, science has never tasted this good or been this much fun! Edible Science is perfect for my science loving, 8 year old baker!
5 Chapters include:
- Mixing and Unmixing – Look at how things mix together and how to separate them.
- Solids, Liquids, and Yum! – See how the behavior of solids and liquids can be surprisingly delicious!
- It’s A Gas! – Look at what happens when you trap and release gases in different foods.
- Actions and Reactions – Set chemical reactions into motion.
- Biology In Your Kitchen – Explore how biology shapes your food.
Available online at National Geographic Store and Amazon.
My daughter would love that edible science one! She’s a bit younger than the suggested age but I might get it for Christmas anyway!