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The Secret Science Project That Almost Ate the School (2006)

by Judy Sierra

Other authors: Stephen Gammell (Illustrator)

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A boy sends off for "Professor Swami's Super Slime" to use as his science fair project and then has to cope with the funny disaster that follows.
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Wonderful colors and creative writing. It is definitely one for 2nd and up based on some of the words and content mentioned. Great book! ( )
  Sharquin | Sep 13, 2023 |
Reading this one to my grands to emphasize that they need TO CLEAN UP AFTER THEMSELVES!
  2wonderY | Aug 9, 2019 |
The Secret Project That Almost Ate the School is a book about a young girl who orders a science project off of the internet and as a result, the project eats many things including the school. The girl buys her project off of the internet because she waited until the last minute and did not have time to make her own. This could teach an important lesson about not procrastinating and the consequences that could happen. Also, the project she got was slime, which children love right now, so that could appeal to young readers. I can see how this book is appealing and fun, however, for the purpose of learning something scientific, I did not care for The Secret Science Project That Almost Ate the School. ( )
  mledward | May 1, 2019 |
Unlike most science related books, this book is more on the fictional, make-believe side. In this story, a girl orders a slime monster in attempts to win the science fair, but the slime monster ended up eating all of her family and friends, spewing them out at the end of the story. Although this story is make-believe, and there are no real science concepts mentioned, I still think this could be a fun story to read to students in a science or ela classroom. I would show students how careful one needs to be when creating/working on experiments, and express how not every thing is as what it seems. This is also a book of poetry, which is good to look at in an ela or reading classroom. ( )
  ctran1 | Nov 19, 2018 |
The book is about a little girl who needs a science project for her school's science fair. She stayed up late looking for an expirement on the Internet. She wanted her science project to be unforgettable. She found an ad for Super Slime. She order the Super Slime and when it arrived she was so excited she looked in the box and poked the Slime. The slime started to swell at ate her cat, sister, and then her dad. She tried to run away from the Slime but the Slime followed her to school. The Slime started to swallow the other students and their science projects. Then the little girl remember she had the instructions in her back pocket. She then yelled feed it sugar. HSe then shook a soda can and told everyone to hide. The slime swelled a thousand times its size.Then Ka-Floo the Slime vanished in a burst and everyone was thrown all over the place. The little girl didn't win first place in the science fair. She had to stay after and clean up the mess. This book is a good example of science fiction because a science expirement would not eat people and then spit them back out if you gave it sugar. Age 6-9 The media used in this book are watercolor, colored pencil, and pastel.
  RachelDeardorff | Mar 16, 2017 |
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A boy sends off for "Professor Swami's Super Slime" to use as his science fair project and then has to cope with the funny disaster that follows.

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This book would be very easy for children to read. The audience of the book is children. The illustrations are colorful and have a lot of detail to them. The illustrations go right along with the words in the book. There is about a short paragraph per page so it’s easy for children to read. The main idea of the book is that a young girl tries to think of a science fair project, but has trouble coming up with an idea. So she gets an idea off-line and the slime she orders for her project turns out to be a disaster. This book would be easy for children to read because it has a short paragraph on one side of the page and a picture on the other side of the page. This book uses the science process skill of modeling because the children in the book show different examples of their science fair projects. I chose this book because children would enjoy the illustrations of this book and they would learn about different science projects.

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