Experimenting with Babies: 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform on Your Kid

by Shaun Gallagher

Paperback, 2013

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Available

Call number

306.874

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Publication

TarcherPerigee (2013), Edition: Illustrated, 224 pages

Description

Babies can be a joy-and hard work. Now, they can also be a 50-in-1 science project kit! This fascinating and hands-on guide shows you how to re-create landmark scientific studies on cognitive, motor, language, and behavioral development-using your own bundle of joy as the research subject. Simple, engaging, and fun for both baby and parent, each project sheds light on how your baby is acquiring new skills-everything from recognizing faces, voices, and shapes to understanding new words, learning to walk, and even distinguishing between right and wrong. Whether your little research subject is a newborn, a few months old, or a toddler, these simple, surprising projects will help you see the world through your baby's eyes-and discover ways to strengthen newly acquired skills during your everyday interactions.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member being_b

Perfectly nice and interesting if you don't have the access or inclination to look up peer-reviewed child development studies yourself.

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LibraryThing member wishanem

Most of the experiments in this book are easy to do and don't require a lot of elaborate preparation or equipment. Considering the strains that an infant/toddler puts on their parents, that's great. However, maybe as a result of how easy they are to set up they're also largely uninteresting to the

experiments' subject kid. Keeping my child reasonably entertained and cooperative while playing through these experiments was sometimes frustrating. Even with those reservations, this was still one of the more enjoyable baby-focused books I've picked up and I'll probably pass it along to a friend rather than donating or pitching it.

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