Adventures in Architecture for Kids (eBook)

30 Design Projects for STEAM Discovery and Learning

Vicky Chan (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
144 Seiten
Rockport Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-63159-973-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Design Genius Jr.: Adventures in Architecture for Kids introduces kids to the design challenges faced by architects today, including choosing materials, designing for diverse users, and considering the environment. Offeringa world of possibilities for learning math, engineering, history, social studies, planning, geography, art, and design, this rich educational resource includes hands-on projects that allow kids to experiment, design, build, succeed, fail, and try again. Children will draw upon many fields of knowledge and sharpen a variety of skills, including observation and communication, as they: Complete building challenges with corrugated cardboard and geodesic forms. Look at how designers have solved impossible problems of gravity and space with creations such as suspension bridges, the Loretto helix staircase, and Brunelleschi's dome. Explore how materials can be used in interesting wayshow paper can go from flimsy to structural, for instance. Participate in family game playing: client and design teamfinding creative ways to meet a client's wish list. Use games to test strength, balance, and structure. Engage in pure imaginative archi-doodling. Explain the why. Why did styles evolve as they did? What technology was available when? Design thinkingcreative problem solvingwill be crucial to resolving the global challenges in business, politics, and the environment facing the next generation. Each book in the Design Genius Jr. series teaches kids this important skill through fun, hands-on projects in a single area of design that challenge them to identify problems, explore possibilities, test ideas, and then come up with original solutions.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.11.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Design Genius Jr.
• Reihe/Serie: Design Genius Jr.
• Zusatzinfo: color photos
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Jugendbücher ab 12 Jahre
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher ► Naturwissenschaft / Technik
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
• Schlagworte: 10 • 11 • 21st century skills • 7 year old • 9 • academic mastery • Activities • adaptable thinkers • age 8 • Architectural History • architecture book for kids • ART • aspiring architect • At home • back to school • Beginner • Biomimicry • Blueprinting • building challenge • CAMP • catch up on learning • children • Citizen • Citizenship • Classroom • Collaboration • Collaborative • Communication skill • Community • Creative • Creative Problem Solving • Creative thinking • Creativity • Curriculum • design genius jr. • design thinking • DIY • EASY • Education • Educational • Edutainment • Elementary • Empathy • Energy • Engineering • Enrichment • Environment • Environmental Science • experiments • Food • fun activities • Future • Geography • Green • Hands-on • Health • Homeschooling • How Things Work • how to • Ideation • Imagination • improve test scores • Improvisation • Ingenuity • Innovate • Innovation • Innovators • introduction to • inventions • inventors • Lesson Plans • lessons • Literacy • machines • mad lib • Maker • Makerspace • map-making • Math • Middle • model making • Planning • Prepare • Preteen • Problem Solving • Product • Project Based • project based learning • Projects • Prototyping • real-world • real world application • Reference • Research • resource • role playing • Safety • school • Science • screen free • security • self • Self Expression • Social Intelligence • Social Studies • Solutions • solver • Spatial Awareness • Steam • stem • storyboarding • Storytelling • Structure • Student • summer vacation • Supplement • Supplies • sustainability • Sustainable • Teach • Teacher • Technology • Traffic • young entrepreneur
• ISBN-10: 1-63159-973-9 / 1631599739
• ISBN-13: 978-1-63159-973-6 / 9781631599736