Inclined Planes

Inclined Planes
Author: Martha Elizabeth Hillman Rustad
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2019-05-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1543598501

Learn about how an inclined plane works! Beginner readers and budding young scientists will love learning about using simple machines in everyday situations. Along the way, readers will be supported by expertly leveled text, a strong text-photo match and appropriate text load. Readers will be excited to dig in and learn all about simple machines and basic physics concepts.

Inclined Planes

Inclined Planes
Author: Louise Spilsbury
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2018-07-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1538337525

Inclined planes are around us every day, though we may not always realize it. Wheelchair ramps, slides, and even stairs are all examples of inclined planes that are integral parts of daily life. Readers will learn all about this simple machine through interesting real-world examples. They'll explore detailed pictures of mechanical parts with extensive annotations and learn about key engineering principles. "Technology in Action" spreads let readers see how mechanical parts and simple machines work. This accessible book is the perfect introduction to simple machines and is sure to encourage an interest in STEM.

Inclined Planes in My Makerspace

Inclined Planes in My Makerspace
Author: Tim Miller
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre:
ISBN:

Uses the principles of makerspaces to introduce inclined planes. Simple text describes the structure and uses of inclined planes, and clear, step-by-step instructions show children how to make their own for creative projects.

Inclined Planes in My Makerspace

Inclined Planes in My Makerspace
Author: Tim Miller
Publisher: Simple Machines in My Makerspa
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2017-02
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780778733768

Children will enjoy this entertaining book which uses the principles of Makerspace to introduce them to the inclined plane, or ramp. Simple text describes the structure and uses of inclined planes, and clear, step-by-step instructions show children how to make one. Readers are then provided with stategies to start their own creative projects using the ramp they made. Along the way, tips and helpful hints guide children on how to brainstorm and solve problems working as a team.

Levers in My Makerspace

Levers in My Makerspace
Author: Tim Miller
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre:
ISBN:

Uses the principles of makerspaces to introduce the lever. Simple text describes the structure and uses of levers, and clear, step-by-step instructions show children how to make their own for creative projects.

Playing a Game

Playing a Game
Author: Mari Schuh
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2015-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1467782971

These kids are playing a game, trying to move a person with a simple machine. Which will work better—an inclined plane or a lever? Readers will see them compare the simple machines to decide. This book supports engineering design standards for primary grades in the Next Generation Science Standards.

Hands-On Science and Technology for Ontario, Grade 2

Hands-On Science and Technology for Ontario, Grade 2
Author: Jennifer E. Lawson
Publisher: Portage & Main Press
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2023-12-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1774920735

Hands-On Science and Technology for Ontario, Grade 2 is an easy-to-use resource for teaching the five strands of the Ontario science and technology (2022) curriculum: STEM Skills and Connections Life Systems: Growth and Changes in Animals Matter and Energy: Properties of Liquids and Solids Structures and Mechanisms: Simple Machines and Movement Earth and Space Systems: Air and Water in the Environment Hands-On Science and Technology for Ontario, Grade 2 encourages students’ natural curiosity about science and the world around them as they participate in hands-on activities and explore their environment. Using the inquiry approach, this comprehensive resource fosters students’ understanding of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) skills makes coding and emerging technologies approachable for both teachers and students emphasizes personalized learning using a four-part instructional process: activate, action, consolidate and debrief, enhance relates science and technology to sustainability and our changing world, including society, the economy, and the environment focuses on practical applications of the engineering design process as students work on solutions to real-life problems builds understanding of Indigenous knowledge and perspectives specific to Ontario explores contributions to science and technology by people with diverse lived experiences Using proven Hands-On features, this book provides resources for both teachers and students including background information on the science topics; complete, easy-to-follow lesson plans; materials lists; and digital image banks and reproducibles (find download instructions in the Appendix of the book). Innovative elements developed specifically for the Ontario curriculum include the following: plugged and unplugged coding activities in nearly every lesson land-based learning activities opportunities for students to use the scientific research process, scientific experimentation process, and engineering design process a fully developed assessment plan to guide assessment for, as, and of learning ideas and prompts for STEM Makerspace project

Simple Machines!

Simple Machines!
Author: Anita Yasuda
Publisher: Explore Your World
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781619308145

"Simple Machines! introduces kids to the concept of mechanical advantage and harnesses kid-power by inviting them to build machines of their own design. This book also opens eyes and minds to the diversity of machines in their lives, and sparks the imagination with challenge, humor, and achievable projects"--Publisher.

Youth Makerspace Playbook

Youth Makerspace Playbook
Author: Maker Ed
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2015-09-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781530072149

Created by Maker Ed with input from the wider maker education community, the Youth Makerspace Playbook provides context and support for those planning spaces for youth to make. In particular, it offers practical suggestions on finding a space to make, outfitting the space with tools and materials, exploring the possible educational approaches within the space, and sustaining the space in the long-term. With this resource, Maker Ed aims to empower and support educators and community members looking to start a youth-oriented makerspace. Of the Playbook, Warren (Trey) Lathe III, Maker Ed's Executive Director shared, "We know that starting and sustaining youth makerspaces is hard work and can feel overwhelming at times. By offering these resources, we hope to lower the real and perceived barriers for educators and community members to create fun and safe youth-oriented makerspaces, so that young people everywhere have the chance to gain confidence, creativity, and a passion for learning through making." Maker Ed is a non-profit organization that supports and empowers educators and communities - particularly, those in underserved areas - to facilitate meaningful making and learning experiences with youth. Maker Ed's mission is to create more opportunities for all young people to develop confidence, creativity, and interest in science, technology, engineering, math, art, and learning as a whole through making. For more information about Maker Ed, please visit http: //makered.org/

Beyond the Makerspace

Beyond the Makerspace
Author: Ann Shivers-McNair
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2021-06-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0472902415

Makerspaces—local workshops that offer access to and training on fabrication technologies, often with a focus on creativity, education, and entrepreneurship—proliferated in the 2010s, popping up in cities across the world. Beyond the Makerspace is a longitudinal, ethnographically informed study of a particular Seattle makerspace that begins in 2015 and ends with the closing of the space in 2018. Examining acts of making with objects, tools, words, and relationships, Beyond the Makerspace reads making as a kind of rhetoric, or meaning-making work, and argues that acts of making things are rhetorical in the sense that they are culturally situated and that they mark boundaries of what counts as making and who counts as maker. By focusing on a particular makerspace over time, Shivers-McNair attends to a changing cohort of makerspace regulars as they face challenges of bringing their vision of inclusivity and diversity to fruition, and offers an examination of how makers are made (and unmade, and remade) in a makerspace. Beyond the Makerspace contributes not only to our understanding of making and makerspaces, but also to our understanding of how to study making—and meaning making, more broadly—in ways that examine and intervene in the marking of difference. Thus, the book examines what (and whose) values and practices we are taking up when we identify as makers or when we turn a writing classroom or a library space into a makerspace.