What can you engineer from recycled materials? This books has loads of ideas! Construct an airplane from cardboard and a plastic bottle, transform an old T-shirt into a working wind sock, and build a small city from plastic containers. Detailed instructions and photos of the steps and the finished product will guide crafty engineers-in-training to try these engineering-themed activities. Extend learning with additional photos of the maker process are accessible online via QR code.
Create new technology crafts from old household materials. Devise a sundial from recycled cardboard, refresh old earbuds with string, and make a cell phone charging cradle from a recycled container. Detailed instructions and photos of the steps and the finished product will guide crafty techies through each projects. Additional pictures of how to make each project are accessible online via a QR code.
Parents, teachers, and caregivers looking for ideas on how to get children outdoors and instill in them a love of nature can find more than 75 creative crafts, games, and activities using objects that kids can collect from nature in this idea book. As children make race cars out of rocks, create paint from plants, and assemble funny grass masks, they learn to be environmentally friendly—absorbing information on recycling, reducing waste, and inspiring others to protect nature. Organized by the various natural materials needed, the crafts offer a new twist on perennial homemade gifts and school projects.
Shares instructions for creating Earth-themed science projects, including converting old clothing into space gear using ice, turning broken crayons into a candle with heat, and growing crystallized candy in a recycled jar.
Shares instructions for creating Earth-themed craft projects, including turning recycled paper into a barrette, giving old shoes new life with painted shark portraits, and building a beehive out of used straws.
Shapes, games, boxes, and more! Crafters will love these math-themed crafts made from odds and ends you already have on hand. Turn cardboard into a working scale, use fractions to give rain boots a splash of color, and let geometry inspire emoji photo props from recycled paper. Color photos and step-by-step instructions will walk readers through each activity. Extend learning with more detailed how-to images are accessible online via a QR code.
Escalating urbanization and energy consumption have increased the demand for green engineering solutions and intelligent systems to mitigate environmental hazards and offer a more sustainable future. Green engineering technologies help to create sustainable, eco-friendly designs and solutions with the aid of updated tools, methods, designs, and innovations. These technologies play a significant role in optimizing sustainability in various areas of energy, agriculture, waste management, and bioremediation and include green computing and artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Green Engineering and Technology: Innovations, Design, and Architectural Implementation examines the most recent advancements in green technology, across multiple industries, and outlines the opportunities of emerging and future innovations, as well as practical real-world implementation. Features: Provides different models capable of fulfilling the criteria of energy efficiency, health and safety, renewable resources, and more Examines recycling, waste management, and bioremediation techniques as well as waste-to-energy technologies Presents business cases for adopting green technologies including electronics, manufacturing, and infrastructure projects Reviews green technologies for applications such as energy production, building construction, transportation, and industrialization Green Engineering and Technology: Innovations, Design, and Architectural Implementation serves as a useful and practical guide for practicing engineers, researchers, and students alike.
