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Cardboard Box Engineering: Cool, Inventive Projects for Tinkerers, Makers & Future Scientists by Jonathan Adolph. 176 p. Storey Publishing, October, 2020. 9781635863604. (Review of finished purchased copy.)
Fact Friday features Cardboard Box Engineering: Cool, Inventive Projects for Tinkerers, Makers & Future Scientists by Jonathan Adolph. Would-be cardboard box engineers will learn the ins and outs of working with cardboard in the first of seven chapters in this attractively design, such as what tools you need to have handy, what cardboard is and why it makes for excellent building. Six additional chapters contain instructions for building three to six themed projects. The chapter entitled "Mechanical Marvels" explores robotics and amniotronics. Other chapters explore audio and optical engineering, aeronautics and nautical engineering, mechanical engineering, ways of harnessing energy and game design.
Templates for the projects are provided in the back along with an index and metric conversion chart. The text is concise and directions are easy to follow and step-by-step accompanied by crisp photo illustrations and schematics. Text boxes contain vocabulary, the science behind the activity and side-stories, such as the fact that the cardboard box was actually inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame! This book has Ms. Kenny's (our incredible STEM teacher) seal of approval and students will most likely find it in the STEM lab from now on.
Highly recommended addition to the STEM collection! I am now going to search out the author's earlier book, Mason Jar Science.
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