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What is a good science magazine for kids (6 year old) ?

BeanBean Posts: 8,129
edited 2010-02-14 23:52 in General Discussion
I was searching for a science magazine to subscribe to for my son.
There are a bunch available, but do you guys have any recommendations ?

Bean.


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PropBASIC thread http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?p=867134

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  • boeboyboeboy Posts: 301
    edited 2010-02-09 04:03
    Well I like MAKE Magazine But it could be a little over the head of a six year old. But they are printed well so it should survive. Also when you subscribe you also get all of the copies in a digital format.

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  • boeboyboeboy Posts: 301
    edited 2010-02-09 04:04
    BTW Bean I have been inactive for a while, when were promoted to moderator? And Congrats.

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  • WBA ConsultingWBA Consulting Posts: 2,935
    edited 2010-02-09 04:56
    My 4 year old loves Nuts-n-Volts and Circuit Cellar. Of course she has no clue what they are, but she gets to hang out with dad and his stuff.

    otherwise, two sites that might be interesting:

    www.sciencenewsforkids.org/

    www.enzoology.com/

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  • MicrocontrolledMicrocontrolled Posts: 2,461
    edited 2010-02-09 20:47
    A magazine? What "science" is it exactly? (I'm assuming electronics)
    When I was 4 I did electronics study by dissassembling a TV remote. My parents where not too happy so they gave me my own. smile.gif

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  • TubularTubular Posts: 4,718
    edited 2010-02-10 03:30
    Hi Bean

    CSIRO, the national science body here produce an excellent mag specifically for 7-10 year olds, "Scientriffic". International subscription is not super cheap (about US$38 a year). There are also teacher notes for guiding experiments etc. If you want me to send you a gratis sample copy just PM me a postal address.
    www.csiro.au/resources/ScientrifficMain.html
    www.csiroshop.com/subscribe

    What we need is a "Mr Maker" show, but for electronics instead of craft. Mr Maker is responsible for waaaay too much mess around our house, but kids just love that show.
  • TubularTubular Posts: 4,718
    edited 2010-02-10 03:38
    I had an afterthought- surely the Exploratorium has something similar?

    Couldn't find a kids mag, but plenty of activity instructables,
    www.exploratorium.edu/afterschool/activities/
    www.exploratorium.edu/explore/handson.html
  • BeanBean Posts: 8,129
    edited 2010-02-10 15:47
    Yeah, what I'm looking for is something like MAKE except for kids.

    It would be nice if they made a "Make Kids" magazine. (No, that's not a sex ed magizine).

    Mainly experiments in: Electronics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Weather, Etc.

    Bean.

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    PropBASIC thread http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?p=867134

    March 2010 Nuts and Volts article·http://www.parallax.com/Portals/0/Downloads/docs/cols/nv/prop/col/nvp5.pdf
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  • LeonLeon Posts: 7,620
    edited 2010-02-10 18:03
    When I was a kid about 60 years ago I loved the "... Things for Lively Youngsters" books by TJS Rowland, I used to get them from the local library. They are quite famous. A few years ago I found one on Ebay and bought it.

    Leon

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  • Tracy AllenTracy Allen Posts: 6,666
    edited 2010-02-10 21:58
    My kids all loved the zoobooks series. It's about animals of course, not technology, but it has pretty interesting pictures of how animals are put together and how they work as efficient biological machines adapted to their environments. The series has been around for a long time, started at the San Diego Zoo, but they still offer subscriptions that catch the natural interest kids have in animals.

    The San Jose Tech Museum has activity guides, home projects, as does the Lawrence Hall of Science:
    www.thetech.org/education/programs/athome/
    lhsgems.org/gemsathome.html
    Some of those seem kind of silly on the covers.

    When I was a kid, my parents subscribed for me to "Things of Science" which was a little blue box that arrived in the mail once a month. Each box had the materials and explanations necessary to perform experiments or to build something interesting. For example, the hexaflexabon kit about mechanical linkages, and there were others to do crystal growing, vulcanizing rubber, and to grow smelly things in a petri dish.. I see from wiki that the series lasted up to 1989.

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  • WhitWhit Posts: 4,191
    edited 2010-02-11 15:26
    Bean,

    Love the Mii! Check out this site - especially under the resources and books section.
    http://www.nationalroboticsweek.org/

    I also like Robot Magazine - I find it more kid friendly than Servo.

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  • Agent420Agent420 Posts: 439
    edited 2010-02-11 16:37
    I'm sure that I am not alone regarding the small engineering-notebooks by Forrest M Mims as some of the first exposures to electronics and experiments.· Radio Shack used to carry them, but they can also be purchased through many other sources.· I can't praise these things enough !!!

    http://books.google.com/books?as_auth=Forrest+M+Mims&source=an&ei=qTF0S6axJZGVtgezwbmfCg&sa=X&oi=book_group&ct=title&cad=author-navigational&resnum=11&ved=0CDAQsAMwCg

    On the subject of Make, while it may be a bit advanced, that is excatly the kind of periodical I would share with my kids...

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  • ercoerco Posts: 20,260
    edited 2010-02-11 21:39
    @A420: Agreed. Forest Mimms' 1983 Engineer's Notebook II got me hooked on electronics. I still use it for reference today!

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  • SeariderSearider Posts: 290
    edited 2010-02-12 14:42
    Wow, I thought I was the only one that got hooked by the Forest Mimms Engineers Notebook from Radio Shack. I still have a number of books from Forest Mimms from the mid 70's. My favorites were the engineering Notebook and the Engineering notebook II. Still they are all dog eared and when I was in 11th and 12th grade and my friends were working on their hot-rods. I would read and re-read these books trying to pull out every little bit of knowledge I could. It looks like you can still get many of these on Amazon.

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  • Kevin WoodKevin Wood Posts: 1,266
    edited 2010-02-14 23:52
    Make Magazine for kids sounds like a good idea. Why not pitch it to O'Reilly? They could do a single issue as a pilot, and go from there based on people's acceptance.

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