Explore Transportation

Explore Transportation! 25 Great Projects, Activities, Experiments travels on an adventure through time and around the globe to learn about the history and science of transportation. From camels to jet engines and pigeons to submarines, young readers will explore the unusual and exciting ways that civilizations old and new have moved people, information, and objects from place to place. The 25 easy-to-follow projects require minimal adult supervision and use primarily common household products and recycled supplies. Kids will have so much fun with Explore Transportation! they won’t even realize they’re learning about history, science, math, culture, and geography along the way. Projects range from making a homemade compass and flying a miniparachute, to deciphering Morse code and locating the North Star. Exploring the evolution of the simple wheel all the way to the sophisticated and complex spaceship, kids will discover that imagination has the power to create huge changes in our world.