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Book

The zoom, fly, bolt, blast STEAM handbook : build 18 innovative projects with brain power

Call Number

  • J 745.5 AKIY (CEN, OSH)

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Publication Information

[Minneapolis, Minnesota] : Quarto, [2018]

Physical Description

143 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.

Audience

Ages 6-10.

Summary

Rockport's creative engineering extraordinaire, Lance Akiyama, returns again with Zoom, Fly Bolt, Blast STEAM Engineer and 18 STEAM approved projects to get kids doing, thinking, and building!--

Contents

  • Toys
  • Rubber band dulcimer
  • Magnetic scene
  • Craft stick bow
  • Kaleidoscope
  • Structures
  • Straw tower
  • Suspension bridge
  • Household innovations
  • Grabber
  • Handheld vacuum
  • Machines
  • Crane
  • Pneumatic lift
  • Cardboard automaton
  • Safety engineering
  • Reentry capsule
  • Crash test car
  • Spinning ride
  • Biomechanics
  • Hungry octopus
  • Jumping grasshopper
  • Lung lift
  • Mechanical hand.

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