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How Bright Is Your Brain?: Amazing Games to Play with Your Mind 1 review
Michael A. DiSpezio
Sterling, 2006
A Great Introduction to Our Brain for Children
I think it is a great introduction for 9-12 year olds. It is written in a friendly, conversational manner with comic style illustrations. I have been going through this book with my 12, 10 and 8 year olds. We have really enjoyed exploring the many different aspects of our brain.
The book has lots of activities to try; experiments to perform, models to make, riddles to solve... It does ...
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Awesome Experiments in Force & Motion 1 review
Michael A. Dispezio, 2008
Awesome Experiments in Force & Motion
This book contains many great, practical experiments. The materials required to perform these experiments are usually things you would have around your house or classroom. One big problem with this book is the editing. There are many typographical errors and/or misusage of words. As a teacher you would not be able let the students just read the experiment out of the book because of these ...
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Awesome Experiments in Electricity & Magnetism1 review
Michael A. Dispezio, 2008
Great book of experiments
This book provide the how-to for experiments in electricity and magnetism that many teachers need. It is primarily focused to the elementary and middle school level. This book tells you how to do the experiments with easy-to-find materials and gives you the reasons behind the science. You teachers know that your students will ask, so be prepared.
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Super Sensational Science Fair Projects 2 reviews
Michael A. DiSpezio
Sterling, 2004
An excellent book for a child's science fair project!
This is a great book with simple (meaning that your child does the work...not you) science experiments that teach and can be great science fair projects. I should know as my daughter won using one of the projects from the book. The projects are clearly explained with great drawings and the author explains how to put a science project together in easy terms for both you and your kids.
I highly ...
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Optical Illusion Experiments1 review
Michael A. DiSpezio
Sterling, 2001
Excellent activity booklet for young children
Optical illusions are one of the most interesting and fun activities that you can engage in. For children, they are fun because they are largely unfamiliar with them and they may be realizing for the first time that your eyes can truly "play tricks" on you. Optical illusions also tell us a great deal about how our eyes and brains combine to gather and interpret information. Things are not always ...
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Challenging Critical Thinking Puzzles2 reviews
Michael A. DiSpezio
Orient Paperbacks,India, 2006
Challenging Book towards Great Critical Thinking
Great Book towards Great Critical Thinking
This book is not only a Challenging, Entertaining and Instructive Collection of 83 perplexing puzzles, but also a tool to discover and develop your critical thinking skills.
Psychologist and educators refer to critical thinking as a variety of higher-level thinking strategies that can be used to analyze, solve and evaluate all sort of things, such ...
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Giant Book of Optical Puzzles1 review
Charles H. Paraquin, E. Richard Churchill, ...
Main Street, 2003
Hours of enjoyment
I've seen some of the illusions in this book in the ripleys believe it or not museum. Some of the illusions involve turning a picture upside down and seeing a totally different picture, mazes, those black and white optical illusion spirals that looks like their moving, thinking puzzles and much much more. Worth every cent.
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Puzzles for a Super-Mind Workout1 review
J. Baxter Newgate, Fraser Simpson, ...
Sterling, 2002
Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!
Excellent. Wonderful. Great fun. These guys really know how to create fun crossword puzzles.
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Great Critical Thinking Puzzles6 reviews
Michael A DiSpezio
Scholastic, 1998
Another Excellent Book By Mr. Dispezio
This is an excellent book for adults as well as children. It is becoming increasingly clear: if you want the best puzzle books for critical thinking skills or just plain fun, there are only 2 writers tha t can bring you the top puzzles: Michael Dispezio and Terry Stickels.
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Awesome Experiments in Light & Sound1 review
Michael A. DiSpezio, Catherine Leary
Amazon Remainders Account, 1999
Awesome Experiments in Light and Sound
This resource provides teachers and parents with 73 concrete experiments providing basic knowledge of light and sound.
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The World's Biggest Book of Brainteasers & Logic Puzzles 3 reviews
Norman D. Willis, Paul Sloane, ...
Sterling, 2006
a must buy for logic lovers
I just love logic problems that are challenging, yet solvable. This book is really great since it has a variety of math and thinking problems. It is very thick and sure to keep you occupied for a while. I'm not an expert, but I have several very difficult logic books and this one seems fun and not way to hard.It is a good buy. I am really glad I got it.
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The Big Book of Brain Baffling Puzzles
Olivia Carlton, Peter Scher, ...
Sterling, 2002
Sharpen your wits--and your pencils--and get ready to tackle this collection of hundreds of mind-stumpers. Try to solve 72 crosswords taken from top-notch magazines of the 50s and 60s. Challenge your cinematic knowledge with acrostics that feature quotes from great movies and 900 movie-related clues. Use math and logic skills to uncover hidden pictures in 100 pixel puzzles--clever conundrums that will have you wracking your brain to figure out ...
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Science Insights: Exploring Living Things 1 review
Michael Dispezio
Addison-Wesley Pub (Sd), 1995
Textbook.
This book contains many errors, bad descriptions paried with horrid illustrations, and many other dissapoinments. It may teach you what you need to learn, but not very well at all. I DO NOT reccomend this book. Unless it is required.
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Critical Thinking Puzzles2 reviews
Michael A. DiSpezio
Sterling, 1996
brooke's review
there was this guy lieing beside a rock how did he die? he was super man and the rock was criptonite
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California Science
Michael J. Bell, Michael A. Dispezio, ...
Harcourt School Publishers, 2007
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California Science Grade 2 1 review
Michael J. Bell, Michael A. Dispezio, ...
Harcourt School, 2007
A little flashy for my tastes
BTW, if you are looking for this grade level and think the California part means "standards" (a la Standards Edition of Singapore Maths), this book really focuses on California. If that is what you want, fine, but if you aren't in California or if you don't follow the philosophy of teaching family-neighborhood-state-country in the first 4 years of school, this isn't the book for you.
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