Turn trash into invention and sharpen your engineering eye with these 10 hands-on engineering projects. Using recycled and easy-to-find materials, engineer your own motorcar, catapult, glider, and other completely functional machines. Explore amazing scientific concepts, such as potential, kinetic, and electrical energy; principles of flight; weights and balances; pulleys and levers; laws of motion; and more. Each project includes step-by-step instructions, full-color photos, exciting facts, safety tips, and extended engineering and science activities for further discovery.
Carol McBride is coauthor of Engineer This!: 10 Amazing Projects for Young Mechanical Engineers.
Francisco Gonzales is a clay artist, wood sculptor, and teacher. He is also the author and illustrator of the children&;s books The Big Stumble and When I Say Jump, Jump.