Provides facts about sneakers, discussing their origin in the mid-1800s and their evolution into modern athletic shoes.

How did somebody come up with the idea for bridges, skyscrapers, helicopters, and nightlights? How did people figure out how to build them?In 3D Engineering: Design and Build Your Own Prototypes, young readers tackle real-life engineering problems by figuring out real-life solutions. Kids apply science and math skills to create prototypes for bridges, instruments, alarms, and more. Prototypes are preliminary models used by engineers—and kids—to evaluate ideas and to better understand how things work.Engineering design starts with an idea. How do we get to the other side of the river? How do we travel long distances in short periods of time? Using a structured engineering design process, kids learn how to brainstorm, build a prototype, test a prototype, evaluate, and re-design. Projects include designing a cardboard chair to understand the stiffness of structural systems and designing and building a set of pan pipes to experiment with pitch and volume.Creating prototypes is a key step in the engineering design process and prototyping early in the design process generally results in better processes and products. 3D Engineering gives kids a chance to figure out many different prototypes, empowering them to discover the mechanics of the world we know.

Product Description: 3-D printing offers new alternatives to the way things are made. From the creation of everyday products, to surgeons' advances in prosthetics; 3-D printing may be the new way of manufacturing. Correlates with STEM instruction and Maker Space activities...read more

Product Description: Warning: do not kiss golden dart frogs! It's a toxic world out there. Poisonous snakes, toxic herbicides, noxious fumes -- poisons in one form or another are all around us. An innocent-looking flower may be lethal, and smog can make it impossible to breathe...read more

Product Description: An entertaining 20-title series that helps young readers master the basics of a variety of history/social studies, science, and technical subjects. Simple and short yet rigorous informational texts and lively illustrations and diagrams engage even the most reluctant readers.

Product Description: Its hard to imagine that a mighty oak tree starts out as a tiny acorn, but its true! This book takes readers step by step through the life cycle of this stunning addition to our landscape.

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Aerospace engineers work with different kinds of aircraft - from gliders to space shuttles. This book introduces readers to this profession.

Product Description: Historically, farming was a very taxing, physical task. Bright-minded individuals revolutionized agriculture with inventions that eased tasks and sped up production. The advent of milestone machines such as Eli Whitneys cotton gin are chronologically explored in this stimulating title...read more

Product Description: "Provides a historical overview of military technology, from the earliest weapons to medieval fortresses and to today's modern weapons and warfare strategies. Includes the progression of lock technology from skeleton keys to today's retinal scans"--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: These volumes mark the progression of science from yesterdays invention to today's state of the art technology. The people and the science that were the foundation of the cars we drive, the computers and cell phones that we use are presented in page spreads with chronological technology benchmarks...read more

Book by Allen, Kenny

Product Description: An aircraft carrier is an enormous ship that acts as a runway on the water for jet aircraft to take off and land. Children will be amazed by the different kinds of ships designed to carry different kinds of aircraft, the different ways in which aircraft take off and land on carriers, and the carrier's role as a base on the water for aircraft...read more