Engineering Science ... You Know More Than You Think: Tales from Playgrounds and Your Own Backyard

by Tom Clifford

The book shows how kids learn about engineering science, and how their play and solutions equip them to understand grown-ups' actions later. Kids on teeter-totters learn about high-rise counter-balanced construction cranes; kids pushing other kids on wagons understand discussions of rockets launching heavy payloads into space; kids making snow-balls or making mud-clods (wet or dry, to throw at their buddies) learn about cohesion, plus about ballistics;...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1698709692
• ISBN13: 9781698709697
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"