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Tinkerlab : a hands-on guide for little inventors / Rachelle Doorley.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston : Roost Books, 2014Edition: First editionDescription: xv, 219 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781611800654 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 161180065X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 600 23
LOC classification:
  • T47 .D646 2014
Contents:
Introduction -- Prepare. Creating your tinkerlab ; Tools for tinkering ; Ten tinkerlab habits of mind -- Experience. Design ; Build ; Concoct ; Discover.
Machine generated contents note: PREPARE -- 1. Creating Your Tinkerlab -- Tips for Clearing Children's Clutter / Jillian Maxim -- What Nursery Schools Can Teach Us about Creative Invitations: An Interview with Nancy Howe -- 2. Tools for Tinkering -- 3. Ten Tinkerlab Habits of Mind -- EXPERIENCE -- 4. Design -- Oh No, That's Not Creative! / Jessica Hoffmann Davis -- Circle Games -- Peel and Stick -- Glue, Glue, Glue -- Mark Outside the Box -- Watercolor Exploration -- Yes, You Can Paint on That! -- Monoprints -- Bubble Prints -- Drawing Games -- Draw What You See -- Art Dice -- Paint Experiments -- Paste Paper -- Ten Lessons the Arts Teach / Elliot Eisner -- Marbleized Paper with Paint and Oil -- Plexiglas Painting -- Foam Plate Relief Prints -- Collage Painting -- Finding Your Five-Year-Old Self in the Art Museum by Margie Maynard -- 5. Build -- The Value of Loose Parts: An Interview with Susan Harris MacKay -- Gumdrop Structures -- Hanging Structures -- Straw Rockets.
Contents note continued: Marble Runs: Ramps and Gravity -- Paper Houses -- Scrap Building -- Ropes and Pulleys -- CD Spinner -- Does It Float? -- Pounding Nails -- Take Things Apart -- Drawing Machine -- DIY Robot -- DIY Kids: Building Tomorrow's Innovators through Hands-on Making / Grace Hawthorne -- 6. Concoct -- Yes, and ... How to Improvise with Children: An Interview with Dan Klein -- Potion Station -- Goop -- Marker Explosions -- Make Your Own (Semiedible) Paint -- Slime -- Ice and Salt Exploration -- Ice Cream in a Jar: An Edible Investigation -- Frozen Carbon Dioxide -- Yeast and Sugar Expansion -- Naked Egg Experiment -- Homemade Butter: An Edible Investigation -- Lemon Invisible Ink -- Glittery Egg Geodes -- Natural Dyes -- Kitchen Challenge: An Edible Investigation -- Concoctions in a Michelin-Starred Kitchen: An Interview with Bruno Chemel -- 7. Discover -- How to Set Up a Discovery Area: An Interview with Parul Chandra -- Playdough Building -- Cloud Dough.
Contents note continued: Pounding Flowers -- Scavenger Hunts -- DIY Light Box -- Photograms -- Ephemeral Installation -- Shadow Investigations -- DIY Lava Lamp -- Mystery Bag -- The Benefits of Basic Materials / Jennifer Winters.
Summary: Features creative experiments designed to encourage young children to use their natural curiosity to explore, test, play, and tinker.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Book Asotin County Library - (Clarkston) Non-Fiction 600 Doo (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31853019605091
Book Book Culdesac Community Library (Prairie River Library Dist) Non-Fiction 600 Doo (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31853018811716
Book Book Lewiston City Library Adult Non-Fiction EDUCATION EDUCATION PRESCHOOL Doorle (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31853019889398
Book Book Nezperce Community Library (Prairie River Library Dist) Non-Fiction 600 Doo (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31853022017185
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references (page 216).

Introduction -- Prepare. Creating your tinkerlab ; Tools for tinkering ; Ten tinkerlab habits of mind -- Experience. Design ; Build ; Concoct ; Discover.

Machine generated contents note: PREPARE -- 1. Creating Your Tinkerlab -- Tips for Clearing Children's Clutter / Jillian Maxim -- What Nursery Schools Can Teach Us about Creative Invitations: An Interview with Nancy Howe -- 2. Tools for Tinkering -- 3. Ten Tinkerlab Habits of Mind -- EXPERIENCE -- 4. Design -- Oh No, That's Not Creative! / Jessica Hoffmann Davis -- Circle Games -- Peel and Stick -- Glue, Glue, Glue -- Mark Outside the Box -- Watercolor Exploration -- Yes, You Can Paint on That! -- Monoprints -- Bubble Prints -- Drawing Games -- Draw What You See -- Art Dice -- Paint Experiments -- Paste Paper -- Ten Lessons the Arts Teach / Elliot Eisner -- Marbleized Paper with Paint and Oil -- Plexiglas Painting -- Foam Plate Relief Prints -- Collage Painting -- Finding Your Five-Year-Old Self in the Art Museum by Margie Maynard -- 5. Build -- The Value of Loose Parts: An Interview with Susan Harris MacKay -- Gumdrop Structures -- Hanging Structures -- Straw Rockets.

Contents note continued: Marble Runs: Ramps and Gravity -- Paper Houses -- Scrap Building -- Ropes and Pulleys -- CD Spinner -- Does It Float? -- Pounding Nails -- Take Things Apart -- Drawing Machine -- DIY Robot -- DIY Kids: Building Tomorrow's Innovators through Hands-on Making / Grace Hawthorne -- 6. Concoct -- Yes, and ... How to Improvise with Children: An Interview with Dan Klein -- Potion Station -- Goop -- Marker Explosions -- Make Your Own (Semiedible) Paint -- Slime -- Ice and Salt Exploration -- Ice Cream in a Jar: An Edible Investigation -- Frozen Carbon Dioxide -- Yeast and Sugar Expansion -- Naked Egg Experiment -- Homemade Butter: An Edible Investigation -- Lemon Invisible Ink -- Glittery Egg Geodes -- Natural Dyes -- Kitchen Challenge: An Edible Investigation -- Concoctions in a Michelin-Starred Kitchen: An Interview with Bruno Chemel -- 7. Discover -- How to Set Up a Discovery Area: An Interview with Parul Chandra -- Playdough Building -- Cloud Dough.

Contents note continued: Pounding Flowers -- Scavenger Hunts -- DIY Light Box -- Photograms -- Ephemeral Installation -- Shadow Investigations -- DIY Lava Lamp -- Mystery Bag -- The Benefits of Basic Materials / Jennifer Winters.

Features creative experiments designed to encourage young children to use their natural curiosity to explore, test, play, and tinker.