Adventures in Engineering for Kids: 35 Challenges to Design the Future – Journey to City X – Without Limits, What Can Kids Create? (Design Genius Jr.)
*2021 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books in Hands-On Science Longlist*
*2021 EUREKA! Nonfiction Children’s Honor Book*
Adventures in Engineering for Kids features:
35 hands-on problem-solving, design thinking, and engineering activities Flexible and adaptable content for different ages and stages Social distance compatibility
Design an Irresistible Future
In settling another planet, humans discover a host of challenges, much like those faced on Earth. The Mayor of City X has established an elite engineering team called the Irresistible Futures Agency, charged with tackling major challenges like:
Energy Environment Transportation Security Food Safety Health
Problem Solving, Design Thinking, and Engineering
As an Irresistible Futures engineer, kids (and adults!) come up with their own unique solutions to big problems. They use design thinking, systems thinking, and other problem-solving activities that are part of being a good engineer for the future. Activities help them:
Explore the impact of global challenges Make complex issues simple and understandable Imagine a better future Create solutions to the challenges they care most about Share their best ideas with the world
Science-Fact and Real-World Case Studies
Along the way, readers learn about real-world innovators and technologies that are making this future possible, from inventors building megastructures in space to companies powering cities with baby poop.
Diversity and Inclusion
In each Chapter, kids design a solution for citizens of City X, who share perspectives on each challenge. The 35 citizens represent a diversity of culture, age, gender, background, and ability, so every reader can see themselves in the story and expand their perspective at the same time.
Without limits, what can kids create?
About the Series:
Design thinking—creative problem solving—will be crucial to resolving the global challenges in business, politics, and the environment facing the next generation. Each book in the Design Genius Jr. series teaches kids this important skill through fun, hands-on projects in a single area of design that challenge them to identify problems, explore possibilities, test ideas, and then come up with original solutions.
From the Publisher
Imagine how tomorrow can be better. Then make it happen.
Transportation Environment Communication Food Energy Safety Health
Learn how to think, not what to think
Practice using the Design Process, a five-step method for solving big problems and engineering a better future.
Complete 35 activities used by real-world engineers and problem-solvers.
See the world from diverse perspectives
Meet 35 characters who have all experienced these problems in different ways.
Understand how age, gender, culture, background, language, and ability affect problem solving, and create solutions that work for everybody.
ASIN : B08BH69WB3
Publisher : Rockport Publishers (June 9, 2020)
Publication date : June 9, 2020
Language : English
File size : 11923 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 142 pages
Price: $19.99 - $11.99
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Help your kids take charge of the world they want to create by designing inventions and solutions to challenges faced in the imaginary City X, the first human settlement on another planet.
*2021 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books in Hands-On Science Longlist*
*2021 EUREKA! Nonfiction Children’s Honor Book*
Adventures in Engineering for Kids features:
35 hands-on problem-solving, design thinking, and engineering activities
Flexible and adaptable content for different ages and stages
Social distance compatibility
Design an Irresistible Future
In settling another planet, humans discover a host of challenges, much like those faced on Earth. The Mayor of City X has established an elite engineering team called the Irresistible Futures Agency, charged with tackling major challenges like:
Energy
Environment
Transportation
Security
Food
Safety
Health
Problem Solving, Design Thinking, and Engineering
As an Irresistible Futures engineer, kids (and adults!) come up with their own unique solutions to big problems. They use design thinking, systems thinking, and other problem-solving activities that are part of being a good engineer for the future. Activities help them:
Explore the impact of global challenges
Make complex issues simple and understandable
Imagine a better future
Create solutions to the challenges they care most about
Share their best ideas with the world
Science-Fact and Real-World Case Studies
Along the way, readers learn about real-world innovators and technologies that are making this future possible, from inventors building megastructures in space to companies powering cities with baby poop.
Diversity and Inclusion
In each Chapter, kids design a solution for citizens of City X, who share perspectives on each challenge. The 35 citizens represent a diversity of culture, age, gender, background, and ability, so every reader can see themselves in the story and expand their perspective at the same time.
Without limits, what can kids create?
About the Series:
Design thinking—creative problem solving—will be crucial to resolving the global challenges in business, politics, and the environment facing the next generation. Each book in the Design Genius Jr. series teaches kids this important skill through fun, hands-on projects in a single area of design that challenge them to identify problems, explore possibilities, test ideas, and then come up with original solutions.
From the Publisher
Imagine how tomorrow can be better. Then make it happen.
Transportation
Environment
Communication
Food
Energy
Safety
Health
Learn how to think, not what to think
Practice using the Design Process, a five-step method for solving big problems and engineering a better future.
Complete 35 activities used by real-world engineers and problem-solvers.
See the world from diverse perspectives
Meet 35 characters who have all experienced these problems in different ways.
Understand how age, gender, culture, background, language, and ability affect problem solving, and create solutions that work for everybody.
ASIN : B08BH69WB3
Publisher : Rockport Publishers (June 9, 2020)
Publication date : June 9, 2020
Language : English
File size : 11923 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 142 pages
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