Crazy Contraptions: Build Rube Goldberg Machines That Swoop, Spin, Stack, and Swivel - With Hands-On Engineering Activities

Take the Rube Goldberg challenge! Toppling dominoes, rolling marbles, racing balloon cars, springing catapults, and whizzing zip-lines are all elements used to build Rube Goldberg machines in Crazy Contraptions: Build Machines that Swoop, Spin, Stack, and Swivel with Hands-On Engineering Activities . Middle schoolers love the wacky machines designed by Goldberg, which were based on complicated chain reactions used to accomplish very simple, sometimes ridiculous, tasks. Young engineers are invited to invent, design, create, and play as they make their own Rube Goldberg machines using the engineering design process and lots of imagination!

About the author

Laura Perdew is an author, writing consultant, and former middle school teacher. She has written more than 20 books for the education market on a wide range of subjects and is the author of Extinction What Happened to the Dinosaurs, Mastodons, and Dodo Birds? and Biodiversity: Explore the Diversity of Life on Earth with Science Activities for Kids. She is a long-time member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, and an avid runner and hiker. Laura lives and plays in Boulder, Colorado.

Product details

• Authors: Laura Perdew
• Assisted by: Micah Rauch (Illustration)
• Publisher: Nomad Press (VT)
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 9 to 12
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.10.2019
• EAN: 9781619308237
• ISBN: 978-1-61930-823-7
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 207 mm x 261 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 535 g
• Series: Build it Yourself
• Subject: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Natural science, technology