This engineering bundle is packed full of activities to get children inventing, designing and building.
Venture inside some of the world’s craziest MONSTER MACHINES! Discover vehicles bigger than buildings, cranes that can lift the weight of two Eiffel Towers and a popcorn machine the size of a house! You can also get engineering at home by building an extending cardboard grabber and making a pulley system for your teddies. Climb aboard a combine harvester to find out how it works and discover how albatrosses have inspired engineers to design more efficient flying machines!
Travel back in time to find out how the VICTORIANS changed the world with inventions from telephones to light bulbs and steam engines to bicycles! You can also bring some Victorian science into your own home this issue by creating a spinning battery-powered motor, engineering a teeteringly tall tower and crafting some Victorian paper toys with clever moving parts.
Find out how steam trains work! You can also read about Alexander Graham Bell who invented the telephone, and take our spaghetti engineering challenge!
With this EPIC ENGINEERING edition you can build bridges from all sorts of materials including paper, marshmallows, sponges and LEGO® bricks! Test different bridge designs by cutting out, creating and comparing some classic structures. Investigate why some materials are stronger than others and discover how cranes can lift such heavy weights. It's not just humans that are great builders – meet the animals that create spectacular structures, including harvest mice, termites, prairie dogs, weaver birds and beavers.
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