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Susan Kristoff is an engineer, technical writer, entrepreneur and crafty gal based in Massachusetts. She has been writing as a freelancer for nearly four years. Her primary subject interests are engineering, fabrication, sensors and data acquisition, scrapbooking, paper crafts, altered arts, homemaking, parenting, science fiction, and many other interests that she dabbles in.

My passion is ...

learning, about pretty much anything.

I know too much about ...

Pokemon, thanks to my 6 year old son.

My parents always told me ...

I could do anything, as long as I worked towards it.

My childhood ambition ...

was to become an astronaut.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

reading The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse/watching CSI (original)/listening to my own dance mix

My first job ...

was as an assistant to a pottery class instructor.

Sciences > Chemistry How to get kids interested in chemistry

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Chemistry happens all around us every day, and can be used to explain many questions about the world that kids ask.  Chemistry is a great subject to expose kids to because of the dramatic demonstrations and experiments that can be performed.  Many experiments are safe enough for kids to be involved with, and kids learn far more from hands-on activities than simply listening to descriptions. Getting Kids Interested in Chemistry Before jumping into experiments, talking to kids about basic chemical processes can help get their minds moving about the kinds of questions that can be an...

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