Cardboard Box Engineering: Cool, Inventive Projects for Tinkerers, Makers & Future Scientists - Hardcover

Adolph, Jonathan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1635863600 ISBN 13: 9781635863604

Publisher: Storey Publishing LLC, 2020

Synopsis

Cardboard is everywhere! For creative kids aged 9 to 14, it s the perfect eco-friendly building material, and Cardboard Box Engineering is the perfect guide to get them started on inventive tinkering. A working kaleidoscope, a marble roller coaster, a robotic hand, and a wind-powered tractor with cardboard gears are just some of the ingenious projects developed by Jonathan Adolph, author of the best-selling Mason Jar Science. Working with simple household tools, kids can follow the step-by-step photographic instructions to exercise their design smarts, expand their 3-D thinking, and learn the basics of physics and engineering with activities that have real-life applications.

About this title

About the Author

Jonathan Adolph is the author of Cardboard Box Engineering and the best-selling Mason Jar Science. As the former editor of the award-winning FamilyFun magazine, he developed hundreds of stealth learning games and kitchen-science activities during his 20-year career. He specializes in making technical information fun for kids and is an adjunct professor of journalism at the University of Massachusetts. He lives with his family in Amherst, Massachusetts.

From the Back Cover

Calling All Inventors!

Design, tinker, and build your own outside-the-box creations. Using the science of engineering, you can turn cardboard boxes, cartons, and tubes into games, airplanes, robots, and more.

Boost sound with a Cup Amplifier
Reach out with a robotic Extending Grabber
Use physics to run a Rolling Roller Coaster
Master game design with Tabletop Straw Soccer!

Edition details

• Publisher: Storey Publishing LLC
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1635863600
• ISBN 13: 9781635863604
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 176