Engineering for Every Kid: Easy Activities That Make Learning Science Fun

By Janice VanCleave

Book Overview

Now you can discover the answers to these and many other fascinating questions about engineering for yourself with this fun-filled resource. Janice VanCleave's Engineering for Every Kid presents entertaining, challenging experiments and activities to help you understand the different types of engineering there are--including structural, solar, electrical, and chemical--and how each is applied to real world everyday situations.

Each of the activities is broken down into its purpose, a list of easy-to-find materials, step-by-step instructions, expected results, and a simple scientific explanation. Plus, the book's 25 projects can easily be used in the classroom, as the basis of a science fair project, or at home just for fun

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471471828
• ISBN13: 9780471471820
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

High school science teacher's go-to favorite for shortened -schedule days.

We have plenty of supplemental reading passages about Careers in Engineering & Application of STEM principles to Engineering Practices. It seems that Doing an Engineering Activity has been often replaced by Watching Video Clips of such practices via curricula materials. On a shorter day, I ask if there's an experiment or activity students might suggest. One or two fast-finishers will ask for work on occasion; and, they have flipped through one of these books visible in the classroom, so they will suggest a simple lab for me or one of the kinesthetic learners to try.

Middle Schoolers Learning Engineering

This is a great book if you're looking for simple and quick labs to support engineering concepts related to structure, acoustics, stress, hydraulics, earthquakes, meteorolgy and more. Each section comes with a "What You Need to Know" that is very helpful for teacher background knowledge and vocabulary, and has been written in a very kid-friendly and teacher-friendly manner.

Kitchen science!

This teaches basic concepts by means of demonstration with household items, so you don't have to go buy a science kit to teach or learn science! This is not for standalone curriculuum, since it doesn't give enough info to the non-science person to thoroughly teach the concepts, but it's great as supplemental to a text. Mechanical engineering science is also great for teaching logic.