More tinkering how kids in the tropics learn by making stuff

Tinkering is a way of learning through hands-on activity -- experimenting with materials and devices to see how they work, taking things apart, making small changes and improvements, exploring and inventing. Tinkering may seem like a form of play -- and it is -- but it is also a powerful way of disc...

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Main Author: Gabrielson, Curt
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] Maker Media 2018
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505 0 |a Intro; Titlepage; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Part I: Separating Substances; Chapter 1: Coconut Oil; Chapter 2: Remixing Air; Chapter 3: Biogas; Chapter 4: Fermentation and Distillation; Part II: The Math of Life; Chapter 5: Basketry in Timor-Leste; Chapter 6: Baskets Full of Math; Chapter 7: The Rhombus Weave; Chapter 8: Kohe; Chapter 9: Stick Solids; Part III: Life and Living; Chapter 10: Food Calendars; Chapter 11: Tinkering with Plants; Chapter 12: Finger Model and Bird Foot Dissection; Chapter 13: Heart Model and Heart Dissection 
505 0 |a Part IV: Earth and SkyChapter 14: Sun Path Model; Chapter 15: Global Warming Models; Chapter 16: Rock Cycle; Chapter 17: Plate Tectonics; Part V: Force Making Movement; Chapter 18: Flip-flop Air Gun; Chapter 19: Newton's Slingshot; Chapter 20: Floating and Sinking; Chapter 21: Lakadou; Chapter 22: Tube Music; Part VI: Electrons in Motion; Chapter 23: Electrifying Induction; Chapter 24: Semiconductor Circuits from the Trash; Chapter 25: Taking Apart Water; Appendix A: About Timor-Leste; Appendix B: Connections to the New Generation Science Standards; Index 
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520 |a Tinkering is a way of learning through hands-on activity -- experimenting with materials and devices to see how they work, taking things apart, making small changes and improvements, exploring and inventing. Tinkering may seem like a form of play -- and it is -- but it is also a powerful way of discovering truths about science, engineering, and math. With this book, Curt Gabrielson follows up on his best-seller Tinkering: Kids Learn by Making Stuff with this all-new volume that features more than three dozen fun and educational tinkering projects based on his years of working with kids in the tropical island nation of Timor-Leste. Step-by-step instructions accompanied by full-color photos take you through a range of enjoyable projects that explore life sciences, physics, chemistry, earth sciences, and mathematics. You'll discover how math is used to make baskets, how fungi create fermentation, how electricity can make a magnet, how the greenhouse effect creates warming, and much more. The author also enlivens his latest batch of tinkering projects with colorful tales of his experiences in the tropic and the lives of the people he' s met there. Inside you'll find: Clear directions for making simple projects and doing activities that teach science, mathematics and engineering Projects rooted in day to day life and experience in a small, developing nation in the Asian tropics Full-color photographs throughout Explicit connections to standard STEAM concepts, K-12 Activities doable with less than $5 worth of common materials This book is perfect for parents, teachers, and students with an interest in hands-on, tinkering-based science and mathematics education, whether in traditional schools or in home-schooling situations. It will also be of interest to anyone who wants to learn more about developing nations, the culture and unique history of Timor-Leste, tropical nations or Asian cultures, with specific links to Indonesia, Portugal, or Australia