Engineering: Feats and Failures - Softcover

Paris, Stephanie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1433348713 ISBN 13: 9781433348716

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials, 2012

Synopsis

Engineers have built some incredible things. But with every new feat, there is failure. Readers will learn about engineering feats and failures like the Titanic, the Hindenberg, the Hoover Dam, and more in this engaging nonfiction title. This book features brilliant images, charts, and intriguing facts in conjunction with informational text and mathematic skills to keep readers active and engaged.

About Shell Education
Rachelle Cracchiolo started the company with a friend and fellow teacher. Both were eager to share their ideas and passion for education with other classroom leaders. What began as a hobby, selling lesson plans to local stores, became a part-time job after a full day of teaching, and eventually blossomed into Teacher Created Materials. The story continued in 2004 with the launch of Shell Education and the introduction of professional resources and classroom application books designed to support Teacher Created Materials curriculum resources. Today, Teacher Created Materials and Shell Education are two of the most recognized names in educational publishing around the world.

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About the Author

Stephanie Herweck Paris has been in education for over 15 years. She has indulged her passion for education by spending time as an elementary classroom teacher, an elementary school computer and technology specialist, an educational activist, and an author of numerous resources for Shell Education and Teacher Created Materials.

Reviews

Gr 3-5-Covering a wide range of high-interest topics in science, history, sports, vocations, and avocations, these small volumes offer tight, busy-looking mixes of color photos, present-tense overview narratives, boxed facts, and captions, supplemented by various combinations of charts, tables, interviews, open-ended questions, and, where applicable, recipes. Each volume is capped by a current, annotated set of multimedia resources. The biographies present highly idealized, inspirational portraits of their subjects. Aside from Healthy, (in which the old food pyramid is replaced with the newer MyPlate recommendations), the Straight Talk titles are not quite "straight." Both Drugs and Smoking fail to deliver enough information for readers to come to their own conclusions about the topics. More balanced alternatives to the entries in both subseries are available elsewhere. Otherwise these titles are acceptable choices for both assignment use and casual browsing.α(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Books in this subset of the Time for Kids series feature plenty of historical high points and, for good measure, some low points, too. According to a note, the content is based on “writing from TIME for Kids magazine.” While the use of many short sentences helps to make the books accessible, the text is brief and often superficial, as the series’ small format and many illustrations leave little space for discussion. However, many good color photos do appear throughout the books. Engineering opens with the Great Pyramid of Giza, the Great Wall of China, and Stonehenge; speeds forward to the triumphs (Transcontinental Railroad, Panama Canal) and disasters (Hindenburg, Titanic) of the Industrial Age; and ends with space travel and the man-made islands off Dubai. A colorful paperback series with some appeal to browsers. Grades 4-6. --Carolyn Phelan

Edition details

• Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1433348713
• ISBN 13: 9781433348716
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 48