From chilling out in a NASA ice tunnel to creating your own homemade twister, this volume from the award-winning Canadian live-action series Popular Mechanics for Kids features four way-cool, shocking, and earth-shaking episodes. Each themed show explores "the science behind all the fun" on topics that fascinate children, as young teens/primary hosts Elisha Cuthbert (TV's 24) and Tyler Kyte experience firsthand real-world applications of abstract concepts in the episodes “Ice," "Water," Earth Power," and "Electricity." How are scientists working to stop ice from forming on airplane wings? How can water generate power? Why do volcanoes erupt? These and other questions are answered in briskly paced on-location segments. With the exception of Charlie, an adult who presents hands-on experiments in each episode, the grown-ups leave the clowning to the kids and represent their respective jobs and disciplines with welcome professionalism (although—parental advisory—blame Canada's comprehensive health care system for an ill-advised segment in which an experiment requires the use of a knife, without any mention of adult supervision). Sure to be “popular,” this volume from the multiple-award-winning series is definitely recommended. [Note: Popular Mechanics for Kids: Firefighters and Other Life-Saving Heroes is also newly available.] Aud: E, I, P. (D. Liebenson)
Popular Mechanics for Kids: Lightning and Other Forces of Nature
(2006) 88 min. DVD: $14.98. Koch Vision (avail. from most distributors). Color cover. ISBN: 1-4172-2934-9. Volume 21, Issue 5
Popular Mechanics for Kids: Lightning and Other Forces of Nature
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