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Tinkerlab : a hands-on guide for little inventors / Rachelle Doorley.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston : Roost Books, 2014Edition: First editionDescription: xv, 220 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 161180065X (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9781611800654 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Contents:
Contents note continued: Marble Runs: Ramps and Gravity -- Paper Houses -- Scrap Building -- Ropes and Pulleys -- CD Spinner -- Does It Float? -- Pounding Nails -- Take Things Apart -- Drawing Machine -- DIY Robot -- DIY Kids: Building Tomorrow's Innovators through Hands-on Making / Grace Hawthorne -- 6. Concoct -- Yes, and ... How to Improvise with Children: An Interview with Dan Klein -- Potion Station -- Goop -- Marker Explosions -- Make Your Own (Semiedible) Paint -- Slime -- Ice and Salt Exploration -- Ice Cream in a Jar: An Edible Investigation -- Frozen Carbon Dioxide -- Yeast and Sugar Expansion -- Naked Egg Experiment -- Homemade Butter: An Edible Investigation -- Lemon Invisible Ink -- Glittery Egg Geodes -- Natural Dyes -- Kitchen Challenge: An Edible Investigation -- Concoctions in a Michelin-Starred Kitchen: An Interview with Bruno Chemel -- 7. Discover -- How to Set Up a Discovery Area: An Interview with Parul Chandra -- Playdough Building -- Cloud Dough.
Contents note continued: Pounding Flowers -- Scavenger Hunts -- DIY Light Box -- Photograms -- Ephemeral Installation -- Shadow Investigations -- DIY Lava Lamp -- Mystery Bag -- The Benefits of Basic Materials / Jennifer Winters.
Machine generated contents note: PREPARE -- 1. Creating Your Tinkerlab -- Tips for Clearing Children's Clutter / Jillian Maxim -- What Nursery Schools Can Teach Us about Creative Invitations: An Interview with Nancy Howe -- 2. Tools for Tinkering -- 3. Ten Tinkerlab Habits of Mind -- EXPERIENCE -- 4. Design -- Oh No, That's Not Creative! / Jessica Hoffmann Davis -- Circle Games -- Peel and Stick -- Glue, Glue, Glue -- Mark Outside the Box -- Watercolor Exploration -- Yes, You Can Paint on That! -- Monoprints -- Bubble Prints -- Drawing Games -- Draw What You See -- Art Dice -- Paint Experiments -- Paste Paper -- Ten Lessons the Arts Teach / Elliot Eisner -- Marbleized Paper with Paint and Oil -- Plexiglas Painting -- Foam Plate Relief Prints -- Collage Painting -- Finding Your Five-Year-Old Self in the Art Museum by Margie Maynard -- 5. Build -- The Value of Loose Parts: An Interview with Susan Harris MacKay -- Gumdrop Structures -- Hanging Structures -- Straw Rockets.
Summary: Features creative experiments designed to encourage young children to use their natural curiosity to explore, test, play, and tinker.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Parent/Teacher Resource Collection-Children's 600 D691 Available 33111007916188
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 600 D691 Available 33111007623776
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Kids are natural tinkerers. They experiment, explore, test, and play, and they learn a great deal about problem-solving through questions and hands-on experiments. They don't see lines between disciplines; rather, they notice interesting materials and ideas that are worth exploring. This book is about creative experiments, in all fields, that help kids explore the world.

Children gravitate toward sensory experiences (playing with slime), figuring out how things work (taking toys apart), and testing the limits of materials (mixing a tray of paint together until it makes a solid mass of brown). They're not limited by their imaginations, and a wooden spoon can become a magic wand as quickly as a bag of pom-poms can become a hot bowl of soup. This book is about helping parents and teachers of babies, toddlers, and preschoolers understand and tap into this natural energy with engaging, kid-tested, easy-to-implement projects that value process over product. The creative experiments shared in this book foster curiosity, promote creative and critical thinking, and encourage tinkering-mindsets that are important to children growing up in a world that values independent thinking.

In addition to offering a host of activities that parents and teachers can put to use right away, this book also includes a buffet of recipes (magic potions, different kinds of play dough, silly putty, and homemade butter) and a detailed list of materials to include in the art pantry.

Includes bibliographical references (page 216).

Contents note continued: Marble Runs: Ramps and Gravity -- Paper Houses -- Scrap Building -- Ropes and Pulleys -- CD Spinner -- Does It Float? -- Pounding Nails -- Take Things Apart -- Drawing Machine -- DIY Robot -- DIY Kids: Building Tomorrow's Innovators through Hands-on Making / Grace Hawthorne -- 6. Concoct -- Yes, and ... How to Improvise with Children: An Interview with Dan Klein -- Potion Station -- Goop -- Marker Explosions -- Make Your Own (Semiedible) Paint -- Slime -- Ice and Salt Exploration -- Ice Cream in a Jar: An Edible Investigation -- Frozen Carbon Dioxide -- Yeast and Sugar Expansion -- Naked Egg Experiment -- Homemade Butter: An Edible Investigation -- Lemon Invisible Ink -- Glittery Egg Geodes -- Natural Dyes -- Kitchen Challenge: An Edible Investigation -- Concoctions in a Michelin-Starred Kitchen: An Interview with Bruno Chemel -- 7. Discover -- How to Set Up a Discovery Area: An Interview with Parul Chandra -- Playdough Building -- Cloud Dough.

Contents note continued: Pounding Flowers -- Scavenger Hunts -- DIY Light Box -- Photograms -- Ephemeral Installation -- Shadow Investigations -- DIY Lava Lamp -- Mystery Bag -- The Benefits of Basic Materials / Jennifer Winters.

Machine generated contents note: PREPARE -- 1. Creating Your Tinkerlab -- Tips for Clearing Children's Clutter / Jillian Maxim -- What Nursery Schools Can Teach Us about Creative Invitations: An Interview with Nancy Howe -- 2. Tools for Tinkering -- 3. Ten Tinkerlab Habits of Mind -- EXPERIENCE -- 4. Design -- Oh No, That's Not Creative! / Jessica Hoffmann Davis -- Circle Games -- Peel and Stick -- Glue, Glue, Glue -- Mark Outside the Box -- Watercolor Exploration -- Yes, You Can Paint on That! -- Monoprints -- Bubble Prints -- Drawing Games -- Draw What You See -- Art Dice -- Paint Experiments -- Paste Paper -- Ten Lessons the Arts Teach / Elliot Eisner -- Marbleized Paper with Paint and Oil -- Plexiglas Painting -- Foam Plate Relief Prints -- Collage Painting -- Finding Your Five-Year-Old Self in the Art Museum by Margie Maynard -- 5. Build -- The Value of Loose Parts: An Interview with Susan Harris MacKay -- Gumdrop Structures -- Hanging Structures -- Straw Rockets.

Features creative experiments designed to encourage young children to use their natural curiosity to explore, test, play, and tinker.

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