Reviews for Up the Science Ladder Activity Bases Ideas for Teaching Science to Primary Grades

The average rating for Up the Science Ladder Activity Bases Ideas for Teaching Science to Primary Grades based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-05-12 00:00:00 Nick Niles A pretty good mix of biography and social history. The most interesting aspect of Volta's life to me was whether he was going to be accepted as a natural philosopher by the more respected minds of his day, or whether he was "only" going to be perceived as an inventor. I hadn't realized that experimenting and theorizing about electricity enough to invent the electrophorus AND the battery(!) would not qualify someone as a natural philosopher automatically. Guess Volta was playing to a tough crowd.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-06-26 00:00:00 L Bass This book is pretty much what it says on the cover, a biography of Alessandro Volta, inventor of the battery, as well as an exploration of the Enlightment through his life and times. A great book for anyone interested in early batteries, or Italian natural philosophers, but Volta was in many way a peripheral figure in the Enlightenment. Some interesting theory about the use of science in diplomacy, to project power and prestige, but there are probably more fun sources elsewhere.