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Put a Fan in Your Hat!: Inventions, Contraptions, and Gadgets Kids Can Build
(Paperback, 1996)
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Author: Robert Carrow
Illustrated by: Rick Brown
Encourages and fosters the spirit of invention by describing how to build such gadgets as a homemade...
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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 007011658X
ISBN-13: 9780070116580
Dec 1996
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Grade:
From 4 to 6
Language: English |
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Synopsis
Encourages and fosters the spirit of invention by describing how to build such gadgets as a homemade motor, a hat with a fan in it, and a motorized shoe buffer.
| Size | | Height: | 9.0 in | | Width: | 7.8 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 10.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
Gr 5-8 Carrow helps youngsters bring Yankee ingenuity back into style with this user-friendly handbook. In 12 chapters, students are invited to make a natural battery, build a motor, and create such diverse items as a hat with a cooling fan, a fish-tank food dispenser, a battery-operated drink mixer, a motorized shoe-buffer, a solar hot-dog cooker, a continuously rotating ice-cream cone, and an automatic toilet-paper dispenser. Each chapter poses a problem, suggests at least one solution, provides the "Science stuff" (usually basic chemistry or physics) that makes the proposed solution work, and offers tips to make the activity more successful. For each project, two complete approaches are fully described: the "just-add-water" method is the easier implementation, followed by a more involved "make-it-from-scratch" solution. Drawings of the inventions and cartoon-style sketches of children actively utilizing them are well done and perfectly complement the text. Boxed entries add interesting historical tidbits such as a story about an escaped convict whose unshined shoes led to his capture. A list of equipment suppliers is provided. One of the book's virtues is its appeal to parents to create inventing partnerships with their children. Carrow's easy-to-follow directions suit the needs of adults with minimal mechanical know-how. A fun, resourceful, and challenging title for future innovators. Jerry D. Flack, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
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