Making Magnificent Machines: Fun with Math, Science, and Engineering - Softcover

McBride, Carol

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1569761027 ISBN 13: 9781569761021

Publisher: Zephyr Press, 1999

Synopsis

Students will have fun creating whimsical animated machines while meeting national science and math standards. Students are guided through practical construction applications with projects they assemble from recycled materials. Science as inquiry becomes part of building the machines. Students will also experiment with math to determine materials and measurements that make his/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, jumping bat wings, and many more magnificent machines.

About this title

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Zephyr Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1569761027
• ISBN 13: 9781569761021
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 128