Maker Lab : 28 Super Cool Projects: Build - Invent - Create - Discover (Hardcover) (Jack Challoner)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br> Learn about science in your own home kitchen using everyday materials. Put together a school project or simply make something incredible to share with your friends! <p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br> <p>Supporting STEAM education initiatives and the Maker Movement, the National Parenting Publication Award-winner <i>Maker Lab</i> includes 28 kid-safe projects and crafts that will get young inventors' wheels turning and make science pure fun.</p><p>Each step-by-step activity is appropriate for kids ages 8-12, and ranked easy, medium, or hard, with an estimated time frame for completion. Requiring only household materials, young makers can build an exploding volcano, race balloon rocket cars, construct a lemon battery, make sticky slime, and more. Photographs and facts carefully detail the why and how of each experiment using real-world examples to provide context so kids can gain a deeper understanding of the scientific principles applied.</p><p>With a foreword by Jack Andraka, a teen award-winning inventor, <i>Maker Lab</i> will help kids find their inner inventor and create winning projects for school projects, science fairs, and beyond.</p> <p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br> <p>Offers a plethora of engaging projects that will capture the attention and curiosity of students from lower elementary (with guidance) through high school. -- <b>School Library Journal</b></p><p>...what sets this book apart is that each experiment is accompanied by real-world applications that tie new observations to kids' existing understanding and offer endless opportunities for STEM-related discussions. -- <b>Booklist</b></p><p>[An] accessible and wide-ranging exploration of multiple aspects of the sciences. -- <b>Publishers Weekly</b></p> <p/><br></br><p><b> About The Author </b></p></br></br> <p>Jack Challoner is a former science and math teacher and educator at the London Science Museum, and author of over 40 science and technology books, including <i>The Cell: A Visual Tour of the Building Block of Life</i> and <i>DK Eyewitness Books: Energy</i>. He is based in Bristol, England.</p><p>Jack Andraka was just a fifteen year old Maryland high school sophomore when he invented an inexpensive early detection test for pancreatic, ovarian, and lung cancers. Now, at seventeen, Jack's groundbreaking results have earned him international recognition, most notably a 2014 Jefferson Award, the nation's most prestigious public service award, 1st place winner in the 2014 Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge, the 2012 Intel ISEF Gordon Moore Award, the 2012 Smithsonian American Ingenuity Youth Award, a spot on Advocate Magazine's 2014 40 under 40 list, a fellowship as a National Geographic Explorer, and he's also the 2014 State of Maryland winner of the Stockholm Water Prize. He is currently a student at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.</p>
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