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How do you build a reusable spacecraft that is strong enough to hold up in outer space, but is light enough to fly? How do you design it to meet the needs of the astronauts it carries? In the 1970s, NASA scientists and engineers were tasked with creating something completely new: a rocket-airplane combination that could safely transport astronauts to and from outer space. What they came up with changed the world!
Created in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution, this book builds students' literacy skills while fostering curiosity, creativity, and innovation. The hands-on STEAM challenge is ideal for makerspace activities, and guides students through every stage of the engineering design process. This book features:
The Hidden World of Garbage: Multi-Digit Numbers
Grade: 4
Price: $9.99
Take a trip to a landfill and recycling center and learn about multi-digit numbers! This math reader integrates math and literacy skills, and uses practical, real-world examples to help students explore math in a meaningful way.
Amazing Animals: Alligators: Multiplication
Grade: 4
Price: $9.99
Sink your teeth into reading about alligators, and practice multiplication while you're at it! This math reader integrates math and literacy skills, and uses practical, real-world examples to help students explore math in a meaningful way.
STEM: 3-D Printing: Adding and Subtracting Fractions
Grade: 4
Price: $9.99
This high-interest math reader integrates math and literacy skills and uses real-world examples to help students explore math in a meaningful way. Students will add and subtract fractions while they are engaged in reading about 3-D printing.
Amazing Animals: Strange Animal Partnerships: Multiplying Fractions
Grade: 4
Price: $9.99
This high-interest math reader integrates math and literacy skills and uses real-world examples to help students explore math in a meaningful way. Students will practice multiplying fractions while engaged in reading about strange animal partnerships.
Amazing Animals: Venomous Snakes: Fractions and Decimals
Grade: 4
Price: $9.99
This math reader integrates math and literacy skills and uses real-world examples to help students explore math in a meaningful way. Students will work with fractions and decimals while engaged in reading about venomous snakes from around the world.
Engineering Marvels: The Eiffel Tower: Measurement
Grade: 4
Price: $9.99
This nonfiction math reader integrates math and literacy skills and uses real-world examples to help students explore math in a meaningful way. Students will convert units of measurement while engaged in reading about the construction of the Eiffel Tower.
Designing Butterfly Exhibits
Grade: 4
Price: $9.99
Learn about the challenges scientists face when creating indoor ecosystems for butterflies! With a hands-on STEAM activity and career connections, this book uses real-world examples to teach how the engineering design process is used to solve problems.
Organic Farming
Grade: 4
Price: $9.99
Learn about the organic food revolution taking place! With a hands-on STEAM activity and career connections, this Smithsonian nonfiction reader uses real-world examples to teach how the engineering design process is used to solve problems.
Saving the Arctic
Grade: 4
Price: $9.99
Discover how changes in the Arctic ecosystem and melting polar ice affect the entire Earth. With a hands-on STEAM activity and career connections, this book uses real-world examples to teach how the engineering design process is used to solve problems.
Powered by Steam
Grade: 4
Price: $9.99
Learn about the history of steam power and the inventors and engineers who made it possible! With a hands-on STEAM activity and career connections, this book uses real-world examples to teach how the engineering design process is used to solve problems.
The Culture of Calendars
Grade: 4
Price: $9.99
It's "time" to learn how different cultures have kept calendars for thousands of years! With a hands-on STEAM activity and career connections, this book uses real-world examples to teach how the engineering design process is used to solve problems.
Conserving an Aircraft
Grade: 4
Price: $9.99
Read how Smithsonian conservators saved and restored an experimental WWII aircraft from ruin! With a hands-on STEAM activity and career connections, this book uses real-world examples to teach how the engineering design process is used to solve problems.
