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MicheleB
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Posted: Nov 06 2012 at 6:58am \| IP Logged

dd11 is taking apart her sister's now defunct Nintendo DSI, trying to learn what makes it work. She says she wants to learn about that in science. I cannot even think what science that is! What is it, and what books should we look at? Curricula? Thanks!

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Posted: Nov 06 2012 at 7:07am \| IP Logged

Engineering
Electricity
Technology

Great science!!!

There are plenty of books on these topics - check out your library and just get a big stack and let her get started! David Macauley's The New Way Things Work would be a good place to start. We built an entire science year around the book and it was fantastic.

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Posted: Nov 06 2012 at 9:07am \| IP Logged

I agree with Jen.

In very, very general terms, it falls under "earth science" because it involves the laws of the earth to make these things work. (NASA does experiments in space to see how things change or remain the same in such an environment).

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Posted: Nov 06 2012 at 9:25am \| IP Logged

Sounds fun -Jen gave a great resource. As a course if you are searching for curriculum resources it would probably be called Electronics. The science discipline it falls under is Physics (or Physical Science).

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MicheleB
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Posted: Nov 06 2012 at 11:44am \| IP Logged

Thanks, y'all! Physical science is (obviously) my weakest science! If she's interested, I want to move quickly!

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

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Posted: Nov 06 2012 at 1:43pm \| IP Logged

Get her some Snap Circuits! Quick!

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