Check out this example of pedagogical brilliance I just discovered (by acccident, waiting for a friend who went to the 2nd floor bathroom at the Union Square Barnes & Noble). It's from a cute little chemistry book for kids (and the young at heart) by Adrian Dingle and Simon Basher called The Periodic Table: Elements with Style. Each element is designed like a character from a video game, and comes with a page of information about its distinctive properties, powers and affinities with others. It's like a better-designed version of one of those dense books on video game characters from which kids memorize reams of very specific information all the time. Brilliant, huh?
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Elements of style
Check out this example of pedagogical brilliance I just discovered (by acccident, waiting for a friend who went to the 2nd floor bathroom at the Union Square Barnes & Noble). It's from a cute little chemistry book for kids (and the young at heart) by Adrian Dingle and Simon Basher called The Periodic Table: Elements with Style. Each element is designed like a character from a video game, and comes with a page of information about its distinctive properties, powers and affinities with others. It's like a better-designed version of one of those dense books on video game characters from which kids memorize reams of very specific information all the time. Brilliant, huh?