Designing Dandelions: An Engineering Everything Adventure - Hardcover

Emily Hunt (author), Michelle Pantoya (author) & Irma Sizer (illustrator)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0896728498 ISBN 13: 9780896728493

Publisher: Texas Tech University Press, 2013

Synopsis

When Bells and Mitch, two young space aliens from the planet Exergy, crash-land on Earth, they must apply the engineering design process to get themselves back home. Captivated by the beautiful yellow dandelions near their crash site, Bells and Mitch investigate the dandelions life cycle. Observing how the flowers disperse their seeds, they construct a mechanical replica to launch their ship back into space. Showing how nature itself can instruct us in engineering, Hunt and Pantoya take young readers on a journey of discovery and problem solving. The authors worked with early childhood literacy experts and science museums in developing this story that teaches the relationship between science and engineering, explains the design process, and introduces science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) concepts and vocabulary.
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Review

Finally! A fun introduction to engineering with easily identifiable characters that show there is an engineer in all of us.
Dr. Pamela Eibeck, president of the University of the Pacific, engineer and mother
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An out of this world adventure that follows the same design process we used aboard space shuttle Columbia.
Dr. Al Sacco, NASA astronaut, engineer and father
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About the Author

Emily Hunt is a professor of mechanical engineering at West Texas A&M University in Canyon. She is the mother of four children.
Michelle Pantoya is a professor of mechanical engineering at Texas Tech University. She lives in Lubbock with her husband and four sons.

About this edition

• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0896728498
• ISBN 13: 9780896728493
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 277