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Bookmarks (Front & Back)I bring one of these bookmarks for each student at your school:
PostersI send you three of these 18" x 24" posters to post around the school to publicize your program. (Let me know if you would like more than three.) They really help build excitement about the "big day." The blank yellow sign is an area for you to write the date, time, and/or location of your programs, or any other information you'd like to pass on.
Printable GraphicThis is similar to the poster, but it has words in the sign. If you're printing reading certificates or other forms and you can use this as a starting point, you're welcome to use it. Just copy and paste it into whichever program you're using.
Press Release"Every machine in the world, from the smallest clock to the largest tractor, is made from a combination of six simple machines -- wheels, pulleys, levers, wedges, inclined planes and screws. Using the simple machines, everyday tasks can be made much simpler. In fact, children can accomplish feats of strength that the world's strongest man can't do without help! Your students will participate in these amazing demonstrations -- someone will get to bend a quarter, another will split a thick board, and more! They'll also learn about inventing and famous (and not-so-famous) inventors. They'll learn about an 11-year-old girl who was offered a job by NASA. They'll meet great inventors from the past like George Washington Carver and Thomas Edison. Along the way, everyone will learn about tools the library offers, such as biographies and graphic novels. For more information, visit www.slightlyillusional.com, or come to your location at time on your date to see Construction Curt and famous Author/Puppet-Rat Roosevelt present their 'Work Smarter' assembly." Book List
Books Featured in the “Work Smarter” Simple Machines Program
Note: I remind students during the program that they can check out a book similar to the ones listed. Topics that I discuss in this program machines and simple machines (wedges, screws, inclined planes, pulleys, wheels and axles, and levers), science terms (hypothesis, fulcrums, friction, force, and work), biographies, graphic novels, and fiction vs. non-fiction. I may not get through all those subjects, but I’ll try.
How Do You
Lift a Lion? Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company (October 1996) ISBN-10: 0807534218 ISBN-13: 978-0807534212
Girls Think
of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (March 11, 2002) ISBN-10: 0618195637 ISBN-13: 978-0618195633
I Is for Idea: An Inventions Alphabet Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press (January 2007) ISBN-10: 1585363278 ISBN-13: 978-1585363278
Imaginative Inventions: The Who, What, Where, When, and Why of Roller Skates, Potato Chips, Marbles, and Pie (and More!) by Charise Mericle Harper Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers (September 1, 2001) ISBN-10: 0316347256 ISBN-13: 978-0316347259
The
Invention of Hugo Cabret Publisher: Scholastic (June 2, 2008) ISBN-10: 1407105043 ISBN-13: 978-1407105048
So You Want
to Be An Inventor? Publisher: Puffin (September 8, 2005) ISBN-10: 0142404608 ISBN-13: 978-0142404607
The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 13) Publisher: HarperCollins (October 13, 2006) ISBN-10: 0064410161 ASIN: B0012F2OGU
The Way Things Work by David Macaulay Publisher: Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books (October 24, 1988) ISBN-10: 0395428572 ISBN-13: 978-0395428573
Who Was
Thomas Alva Edison?
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap (December 29, 2005) ISBN-10: 0448437651 ISBN-13: 978-0448437651
Bonus WorksheetI will send you a hardcopy of this in your information packet. You can copy it and give to your teachers for a post-program activity / discussion vehicle. (I'll also send the answer key.)
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