Playtime Engineering

Playtime Engineering
Author: WonderLab Group
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 27
Release: 2023-09-12
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1536234486

Grab a play mat, blocks, and your favorite baby engineer. It’s time to build something—and see science at work! Oh, my. You’ve gathered lots of materials. What will you build? With blocks at the ready, watch as your baby uses their hands to bear weight and the couch for support while experimenting with setting up a sturdy base, stacking a tower, spanning a space with an arch—and applying force, of course. Bash! Smash! Crash! Babies and toddlers are naturally curious explorers—now help them discover that science is fun! In this bright, graphic board book, photos of busy little ones offset a lively running dialogue sprinkled with factual asides that define basic engineering terms.

Foundations of Software and System Performance Engineering

Foundations of Software and System Performance Engineering
Author: André B. Bondi
Publisher: Pearson Education
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2015
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0321833821

The absence of clearly written performance requirements is the cause of much confusion and bad software architectures; this book's coverage of performance requirements engineering and domain-specific performance metrics at every stage of the software process addresses the problem. Application of the principles in this book will considerably mitigate the risks that performance post to the success of a software system and lead to a better quality product with wider acceptance.

Early Engineering Learning

Early Engineering Learning
Author: Lyn English
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2018-05-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9811086214

This book addresses engineering learning in early childhood, spanning ages 3 to 8 years. It explores why engineering experiences are important in young children's overall development and how engineering is a core component of early STEM learning, including how engineering education links and supports children's existing experiences in science, mathematics, and design and technology, both before school and in the early school years. Promoting STEM education across the school years is a key goal of many nations, with the realization that building STEM skills required by societies takes time and needs to begin as early as possible. Despite calls from national and international organisations, the inclusion of engineering-based learning within elementary and primary school programs remains limited in many countries. Engineering experiences for young children in the pre-school or early school years has received almost no attention, even though young children can be considered natural engineers. This book addresses this void by exposing what we know about engineering for young learners, including their capabilities for solving engineering-based problems and the (few) existing programs that are capitalising on their potential.

Stroller Ecology

Stroller Ecology
Author: WonderLab Group
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 27
Release: 2023-09-12
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1536234494

Ready to roll with your little ecologist? Head to the park to engage all the senses and discover new things—living things! Shh. If we’re really quiet, what can we hear? Did you know your nearby park is its own ecosystem? There, your baby can smell some flowers that use sunshine to grow, watch a bird reuse twigs for a nest, listen to ducklings peep, and touch the rough bark of a squirrel’s habitat. Babies and toddlers are naturally curious explorers—now help them discover that science is fun! In this bright, graphic board book, photos of wide-eyed little ones offset a lively running dialogue sprinkled with factual asides that define basic ecology terms.