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Bridges, furniture, musical instruments, games, vehicles--all of these things were invented and improved upon by people who love to put stuff together, take stuff apart, and figure out how things work. Readers can explore what it means to be an engineer through hands-on activities and tinkering. Full color.x 10.

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This title examines the stories of women who are today designing the houses, schools, museums, and public spaces where we spend our time. Illustrations.

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In these new titles in the Explore Your World series, readers discover how extraordinary feats of engineering--bridges, canals and dams, tunnels, and skyscrapers--are created, and apply what they have learned to hands-on, critical-thinking activities. Each book contains 25 projects.s.

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Over centuries and across cultures people have defied gravity in a quest to build the tallest, grandest structures imaginable. Skyscrapers: Investigate Feats of Engineering with 25 Projects invites children ages 9 and up to explore the innovation and physical science behind these towering structures. Trivia and fun facts illustrate engineering ingenuity and achievements from the ancient pyramids to the Empire State Building. Readers will devel...

[This book] travels through the past and into the future to explore how humans have measured the passage of time."--P. [4] of cover.

Provides an introduction to the ancient Inca and their civilization and includes hands-on projects and activities such as building a tropical cloud forest, making a drop spindle, and creating a T-shirt version of an Inca tapestry.

Have you ever noticed that the physical world works in certain ways? Skateboarders use force and motion to perform tricks. If you jump up as high as you can, you'll quickly fall back to the ground. Baseball players use gravity to bring the ball back down when they throw it. When you flip a switch, electricity powers your toaster. Rock bands use electricity to put on a show. The fascinating science of physics helps you understand why forces, mo...

Have you ever noticed that the physical world works in certain ways? Skateboarders use force and motion to perform tricks. If you jump up as high as you can, you'll quickly fall back to the ground. Baseball players use gravity to bring the ball back down when they throw it. When you flip a switch, electricity powers your toaster. Rock bands use electricity to put on a show. The fascinating science of physics helps you understand why forces, mo...

For anyone who's ever dreamed of ruling over their own empire, here's your chance! Micronations are imaginary countries that have a lot of the same things as real ones: laws, customs, history, and their own flags, coins, and postage stamps. Micronations: Invent Your Own Country and Culture takes readers step-by-step to create their own unique realm, using examples from real nations, micronations, and fictional lands. What makes a country a cou...

Introduces civil engineering through twenty-five simple experiments that explore such concepts as Newton's third law of motion, buoyancy, and centrifugal force.

The roots of American music genres are explored with this book as it investigates the social, political, and religious influences that have inspired and continue to inspire musicians. It includes activities and projects to engage kids with hands-on explorations of the physics of sound vibrations, decibel levels, and acoustics.

Given the pace of how we harness and utilize electricity, as well as the importance of developing new sources of energy, electricity is a timely subject for kids to explore. In Explore Electricity! With 25 Great Projects, kids ages 6-9 will learn the basics of electricity: currents, circuits, power, magnetism and electromagnetism, motors and generators. They'll become more attuned to how much they rely on electricity in their daily lives. They...

Teaching children that the battle against the world's overwhelming waste problem begins with them, this title features projects that investigates the science of "garbology". It highlights the choices people make in creating garbage in the first place, suggesting ways kids can reduce, reuse, recycle and rethink their actions for the future.

For Gary Jobson--the three-time All American sailor, America's Cup winner, Fastnet Race winner, and ESPN sailing commentator since 1985--sailing is life. In 2003, he was diagnosed with lymphoma, and here he relays the tumultuous diagnosis and treatments endured before the cancer went into remission. Through remission he remembers how his life has intertwined with some of the greatest sailors, how the sport has changed since his childhood, how ...