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This Book Thinks You're an Inventor
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021563
ISBN
9780500651766
Grade 2-6
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Description
Imagine, Experiment, Create! Unleash your inner creativity while exploring key STEM topics through the interactive activities in this series. Offering open-ended questions or activities, children are encouraged to write, draw, or interact with the activities. Also included are paper-based activities and experiments. Hand drawn illustrations and photographic collages help children think scientifically by observing details, asking questions, and dreaming up new ideas. Breathes fresh life into science!
Publisher's Description of This Book Thinks You're an Inventor
This interactive book helps children think like an inventor by noticing details, questioning everything, and dreaming up new ideas. Through fun activities and Harriet Russell's hilarious illustrations, This Book Thinks You're an Inventor encourages readers to engage with new ideas by creatively experimenting and investigating for themselves.
The book explores six subjects: engineering household objects, transportation, flight, AI and robots, construction, and the future of science. Each spread centers on an open-ended question or activity, with space on the page for the child to write, draw, or interact with the book. At the end, there are paper-based tinkering activities and experiments for children.
Hand-drawn illustrations and a collage-style use of photographs give the book a fresh, creative, and fun approach that makes the scientific content appealing for children.
Details
| Product Format: | Paperback |
|---|---|
| Brand: | Thames & Hudson |
| Grades: | 2-6 |
| ISBN: | 9780500651766 |
| Length in Inches: | 9.875 |
| Width in Inches: | 7.75 |
| Height in Inches: | 0.375 |
| Weight in Pounds: | 0.6 |
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