Skyscrapers!: With 25 Science Projects for Kids

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How high can skyscrapers go? And how do engineers design them so they won't fall down? Kids ages 7 to 10 can find the answers to these and other skyscraper questions in Skyscrapers! With 25 Science Projects for Kids. Readers find out the history, engineering, and who builds these amazing structures while doing student-driven STEAM activities that reinforce learning and allow for plenty of discovery about the engineering design process, simple machines, and the laws of physics!

Elizabeth Schmermund is a writer, editor, scholar, and teacher. She has written more than 15 books for students and young readers, including Architecture: Cool Women Who Build Structures for Nomad Press. She lives in the New York metro area with her family. Mike Crosier holds an MFA from the Center for Cartoon Studies. He is the illustrator of several books from Nomad Press, including Explore Greek Myths! With 25 Great Projects and Video Games: Design and Code Your Own Adventure. He lives in White River Junction, Vermont.

Explore Simple Machines! With 25 Great Projects Booklist . . . Yasuda writes in particularly clear, simple language, and intersperses her explanations with historical notes, jokes that even the target audience will find laughably lame ('What did the apple say to the wedge? You split me up!') and 25 easy projects or demonstrations constructed from common materials. She also repeatedly urges readers to spot and classify the simple machines that are all around, encourages the use of a science notebook, and closes her discourse with descriptions of what inventors and engineers do. Illustrated with simple black-and-white cartoons and capped with well-considered lists of print and other resources, this makes a serviceable hands-on guide to the topic." Skyscrapers: Investigate Feats of Engineering with 25 Project School Library Journal: "Large font and an open layout make this title accessible to reluctant readers. Kids will appreciate the boxed 'Words to Know' sections embedded on most pages that highlight new vocabulary. 'Did You Know?' sidebars also appear throughout and showcase interesting facts and anecdotes. Simple black-and-white illustrations enhance the narrative and break up the text. The scientific concepts are explained with easy-to-understand and kid-friendly examples. The 25 activities can be easily replicated at home, school, or in a library STEAM program, and require items that can be found at a grocery or hardware store. Projects include creating a step pyramid out of sugar cubes and engineering a skyscraper out of spaghetti noodles and mini marshmallows. Latham adheres to the scientific process and encourages young scientists to make predictions and assess their results along the way. This would be a useful title to supplement lessons on architecture, mathematics, or physics for classroom teachers or homeschoolers, and it's an appealing initiation to the subject."