Shortlisted for the Primary Teacher Update Award 2018 Learn as you do in this hands-on engineering book for kids with Carol Vorderman. Being an engineer isn't just about wearing a hard hat and looking important while holding a clipboard! It's about looking at the world and trying to figure out how it works. As well as simple engineering projects for kids to try, DK's How to be an Engineer will teach them how to think like an engineer, including materials, building, machines, getting around, and energy. You can find out how engineers use STEAM subjects and their imaginations to fix problems, and take inspiration from engineering heroes such as Leonardo da Vinci, Mae Jemison, and Elon Musk. This book encourages you to investigate, with amazing projects using things from around your home: find out about materials by crushing loo rolls, learn about jet propulsion with balloons, and
We often think of science as continuously advancing. In thiscollection of essays, five world-renowned writers explore obscureand neglected episodes in the history of science which suggestinstead that the process of understanding the significance ofscientific discoveries can be erratic, contradictory, evenirrational. Jonathan Miller, Oliver Sacks, and Daniel Kevles showhow promising new ideas may at first fail to be noticed oraccepted, and then, years after they have been dismissed orforgotten, are recognized in a different form as important. R.C.Lewontin and Stephen Jay Gould discuss the ways that words andimages used by scientists and popularizers alike, from the muralson the walls of natural history museums to such ubiquitous terms as"adaptation" and "environment," reflect serious and oftenunacknowledged distortions in the way we conceive of bothindividual organisms and the natural history of the world. These essays demonstrate that science is, in the words of OliverSacks, "a human enterprise through
