Inspire and encourage your child to design the future with the STEM Kids Journal! This book includes an Engineering Design Process poster and the prompts: Ask - Imagine - Plan - Create - Experiment - Improve. It takes kids through each of these steps with questions and places to sketch. At the end of each section, they will have a fully-developed idea. Perfect for project notes, sketches, ideas, data and research notes.With an emphasis on STEM education continuing to grow all over the world, this journal prepares kids to stay ahead of the curve. It will have them thinking like engineers with STEM-focused content appropriate for all levels of learning. With the Engineering Design Process incorporated into every challenge, kids will practice and develop their problem-solving and design skills so that they can learn to overcome any obstacle. The structure in this guide provides an excellent framework for teachers who might not feel versed in all areas of STEM. It has a designated space for recording daily ideas, inventions and STEM challenges. A journal kids will enjoy!

"The Big Idea Notebook for Kids - Inventing" will teach your child the very basics of inventing through a fun and easy to understand story about two kid inventors!The preface and foreword are written by a 10 year old inventor who shares her perspectives on being a kid inventor.This book also doubles as an invention journal so kid inventors can write down their amazing ideas.

Intended to support the national initiative to strengthen learning in areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, this book helps librarians who work with youth in school and public libraries to build better collections and more effectively use these collections through readers' advisory and programming. A versatile and multi-faceted guide, Best STEM Resources for NextGen Scientists: The Essential Selection and User's Guide serves as a readers' advisory and collection development resource for youth services and school librarians seeking to bring STEM-related titles into their collections and introduce teachers and young readers to them. This book not only guides readers to hundreds of the best STEM-related titles—fiction and non-fiction printed materials as well as apps, DVDs, websites, and games—it also includes related activities or programming ideas to help promote the use of the collection to patrons or students in storytime, afterschool programs, or passive library programs. After a detailed discussion of the importance of STEM and the opportunities librarians have for involvement, the book lists and describes best STEM resources for young learners. Resources are organized according to the reading audiences for which they are intended, from toddlers through teens, and the book includes annotated lists of both fiction and nonfiction STEM titles as well as graphic novels, digital products, and online resources. In addition, the author offers a selection of professional readings for librarians and media specialists who wish to further expand their knowledge.

Put on your thinking cap and get inventive! Make a musical instrument from glass bottles, use a drop of water to create a microscope, develop your own computer programming language, and more! Filled with interesting fun facts and entertaining activities, this book will inspire you to create your own inventions.

Famous STEM Inventors is an exciting collection of stories of young inventors and how they invented new things such as glowing paper, the surfboard, ear muffs, the television, the popsicle and more. It includes the engineering design process behind every invention to encourage children to understand the methods of inventing anything new. The book also contains prompts which inspire kids to design and create their own new gadget or useful thing.

The Inventor's Log Book with a cool science chemistry cover design. This 7 by 10 inch notebook has 100 pages with spaces to write in for the name of the invention, its purpose, materials, and even to add a sketch of it. Encourages little kids to keep track of their big ideas. Fun gift for a future inventor, or any child who loves science experiments and creating things!

The Big Book of 100 STEM Activities is a bumper book of boredom-busting ideas for fun and educational things to do for curious kids and their grown-ups. Developing an awareness of STEM themes from an early age is hugely important and encourages kids to be curious about their world and want to engage with it. This jam-packed collection of fun and simple activities introduces ideas and themes based on science, engineering, technology and maths in an accessible and stimulating way. You can learn about kinetic and potential energy while building an awesome marble run, why your breakfast cereal is magnetic, how to use gravity to make art and even how to grow yucky mould or make stinky slime in the name of science. Using crafts, play and simple experiments, these activities are presented in an easy-to-follow format and make use of everyday materials that you'll find around the home. Each activity provides a simple explanation of how it works and what the takeaway key STEM points are. Fill those rainy days and school-holiday downtime with things to do that are so much fun, the kids won't even realise that they are learning at the same time!