Cosmetics Provide Kids Science Lessons

Aug 7th, 2008
Jeff Falk
Printed in The Chicago Tribune, the New York Times News Service reports on a museum program in which kids take part in breaking down cosmetics into component parts to reinforce the basic scientific inquiry process—purpose, method, results, conclusion—a system of logic familiar to any student who ever took a lab course.

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