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Engineering Project Judging

By Janice VanCleave

Janice VanCleave’s Engineering for Every Kid: Easy Activities That Make Learning About Engineering Fun   Ideas that can be developed into Engineering Projects. The following guidelines are set by the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF). Note that these guidelines address judging of both science projects and engineering projects. This comparison gives you clues about […]

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Engineers vs. Inventors

By Janice VanCleave

Janice VanCleave’s Engineering for Every Kid: Easy Activities That Make Learning Science Fun This book contains research for different types of engineering as well as investigations that can be used as exploratory experiments in the design and developing of an engineering project. What’s the difference between an engineer and an inventor? Sometimes there is no […]

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Shape: Force Distribution

By Janice VanCleave

Janice VanCleave’s Engineering for Every Kid: Easy Activities That Make Learning Science Fun This book contains research for different types of engineering as well as investigations that can be used as exploratory experiments in the design and developing of an engineering project. The Science and Engineering Fair is a contest with two specific types of […]

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Strength of Shapes

By Janice VanCleave

Testing the Strength of an Egg Shell Eggs break easily when you hit them against a hard surface. But it’s difficult to break an egg just by squeezing it length-wise in your hands. This is because of the dome shape of the eggshell. The force applied by your hand spreads over the eggshell. The diagram […]

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Engineering:Solar Power

By Janice VanCleave

Garrett Yazzie: A navajo indian junior high student not only entered but won first place in the 2005 annual Arizona American Indian Science And Engineering Fair. Garrett’s has been called the “junk yard genius” by some because he secured most and maybe all of the parts for his solar heating project from a junk yard. […]

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Engineering Books

By Janice VanCleave

  20% Discount Code AFF20 Engineers design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely improve  the lives of people. Engineering is a potpourri of all scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge. Janice VanCleave’s Engineering for Every Kid: Easy Activities That Make Learning Science Fun Janice VanCleave’s Energy for Every Kid: […]

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Testing the Strength of a Thigh Bone Model

By Janice VanCleave

Strength Testing of Thigh Bone Model

The long bone in your leg, called your thigh bone, is shaped much like the bone in a chicken’s leg. Both have a hollow, cylinder-like shape, which means they are shaped like a tall soup can.This shape makes the leg bone lighter than it would be if it were solid throughout. Discover For Yourself The […]

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Engineering Investigations for Kids

By Janice VanCleave

Engineering, is a discipline that  many considered very difficult. The truth is that it is one of the most applicable studies. Engineering is the application of science, mathematics, and experience to produce a thing or a process that is useful. Engineering is neither more nor less important than science, just different. The basic objective of […]

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Fluorescent Highlighters

By Janice VanCleave

Fluorescent highlighters are extra bright in sunlight, but not so different than other highlighters under a desk lamp. This is because two bundles of light energy is being sent to your eyes and both are for the same color. This makes the color more intense–louder–brighter–super-bright. Let’s consider a yellow fluorescent highlighter. One source of light […]

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