Product Description

Students will have fun creating whimsical animated machines from recycled objects while meeting national science and math standards using this activity book of practical construction applications.

Science-as-inquiry becomes part of building the machines. Students also will experiment with math to determine materials and measurements that make his or her machine perform its best.

Fourteen step-by-step projects are provided, emphasizing key concepts of potential, kinetic, and electrical energy; inclined plane; fulcrum, lever, and pulley; weights and balances; characteristics of moving objects; principles of flight; and action and reaction. Students will enjoy hands-on learning while making ducks that lay golden eggs, cars that really race, an extraordinary Ferris wheel, or jumping bat wings.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2291832 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

About the Author
Carol McBride teaches arts and crafts, animation, cartooning, sleuthing, and carnival games to children ages 5 through 13. Her enthusiastic creativity inspires the same in the children she teaches. She has worked for the City of Tuscon Parks and Recreation, developing her own projects to suit individual classes.

Customer Reviews

Fantastic and Fun
Everyone has so much fun.

I learned to teach by teaching these activities. Every project is green, and shows the student how to reuse. It taught me to be innovative in the classroom and even more green in my instruction.

Smart crafts: Structural Engineering, how to put things together so they stay together and work; Green: reuse. Recyclables are the soul of every project.

Unique art projects like a goose that really does lay an egg.

Each project has Step by step visual and verbal instructions. My students are challenged and love creating their own toys.

Encourages problems solving. Teaches kinetic energy. Stimulates the imagination. Kids build their own toys out of recyclables like cereal boxes, sour cream containers, milk jugs, paper tubes. The children are always enjoying themselves, laughing, playing, and helping each other.

Kids learn to create toys out of junk. Builds on social skills along with their engineering knowledge.

I love it, and recommend it to everyone. Even parents that home school.