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Detailed Book Description
Have you crossed over a bridge today? Have you ridden an elevator to a top floor? Have you opened up a carton of milk? All of these things were made possible through engineering!
In Gutsy Girls Go for Science: Engineers with STEM Projects for Kids, readers ages 8 to 11 meet five female engineers who revolutionized the role of women in engineering, including Ellen Swallow Richards, Emily Warren Roebling, Kate Gleason, Lillian Moller Gilbreth, and Mary Jackson. Short sidebars highlight the accomplishments of contemporary female engineers and reveal the ways that women are finding success in engineering today, pointing the way for young people to imagine their place in engineering in the future.
Using a fun narrative style, engaging illustrations combined with photography, fascinating facts, essential questions, links to online resources, and hands-on projects, this book deepens readers’ creative and critical thinking skills.
Engineers is part of a set of four Gutsy Girls Go for Science books that explore career connections for young scientists. The other titles in this series include Paleontologists, Astronauts, and Programmers.
Try these hands-on STEM projects!
- Create a presentation on processed food
- Make a model suspension bridge
- Test organizational psychology
- Research women working at NASA today
| Paperback, $14.95 9781619307858 |
Hardcover, $19.95 9781619307827 |
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Timeline
Introduction: Putting It All Together
Scientifically Engineered Foods
Chapter One
Ellen Swallow Richards: The Environment Engineer
Environmental Issues
Chapter Two
Emily Warren Roebling: The Chief Engineer
Spanning the World
Chapter Three
Catherine “Kate” Gleason: The Mechanical Engineer
Getting Into Gears
Chapter Four
Lillian Moller Gilbreth: The Industrial Engineer
The Task at Hand
Chapter Five
Mary Jackson: The Aerospace Engineer
Kite Aerodynamics
Glossary
Resources
Index