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Adventures in Engineering for Kids

40 Challenges to Design the Future as You Journey to City X; Without Limits, What Can Kids Create?

By: Brett Schilke

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Adventures in Engineering for Kids

40 Challenges to Design the Future as You Journey to City X; Without Limits, What Can Kids Create?

By: Brett Schilke

Design Genius, Jr.: Adventures in Engineering for Kids explores the future through problem solving, design thinking, and engineering in a science-fact world that most parents and kids don’t yet know exists. This book invites kids to take charge of the world they wish to create by designing inventions and solutions to challenges faced in an imaginary City X, the first human settlement on another planet. This adventure takes readers on an epic journey: humans are leaving Earth, arriving at a new planet, and creating the first settlement there, City X. It’s a journey of historic proportions, to a fledgling city on a distant planet, where humanity has a chance to start fresh and design a future that works for everyone. In settling another planet, humans discover a host of challenges, much like those faced on Earth: Challenges related to issues of energy, environment, transportation, security, food, safety, and health. Empowered by design thinking and advanced technology, their problems are to be solved by a vast team of young designers on Earth (your children!). With this book, you and yours will be able to develop the tools to explore, understand, imagine, create, and share your own irresistible futures through accessible real-world activities and awesome ideations. Without limits, what can kids create?

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1631598392

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Adventures in Engineering for Kids

35 Challenges to Design the Future - Journey to City X - Without Limits, What Can Kids Create?

By: Brett Schilke

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Adventures in Engineering for Kids

35 Challenges to Design the Future - Journey to City X - Without Limits, What Can Kids Create?

By: Brett Schilke

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.

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Adventures in Engineering for Kids

35 Challenges to Design the Future - Journey to City X - Without Limits, What Can Kids Create?

By: Brett Schilke

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35 Challenges to Design the Future - Journey to City X - Without Limits, What Can Kids Create?

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Food Hypersensitivity and Adverse Reactions

A Practical Guide for Diagnosis and Management

By: Marianne Frieri,Brett Kettelhut

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Food Hypersensitivity and Adverse Reactions

A Practical Guide for Diagnosis and Management

By: Marianne Frieri,Brett Kettelhut

Presents classic and recent findings on immunological dysfunctions caused by food allergies-coordinating the most advanced clinical techniques and assessment methods with practical insights for treatment and patient care.

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CRC Press

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0824799038

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9780824799038

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