WonderScience book promotes hands-on science for everyone

W onderScience, the magazine that makes science exciting and entertaining for schoolkids, has reached a milestone—its 10th anniversary of publication. Begun in 1986 by the American Chemical Society, the eightpage magazine was intended as a science outreach medium for elementary-school children. The American Institute of Physics (AEP), College Park, Md., became a partner in the magazine in 1989. "The goal of WonderScience has always been to encourage more hands-on science by more young kids," says WonderScience Editor James H. Kessler. The ACS Education Division, which produces WonderScience, has now come forth with "The Best of WonderScience," a full-color book celebrating the magazine's first 10 years. The book is a compilation of back issues that brings the world of laboratory science to the fingertips of elementary-school children and their teachers and parents. WonderScience has clearly reached its goal. Four issues are published simultaneously each September and each January. Those eight issues make up one year of WonderScience —that ...