A potato chip lover, Aisha begs her older brother Malcolm to bring her to the potato chip factory where he is an industrial engineer. Malcolm agrees to take her, but only if she and her cousin Tanya complete their summer project for school. Taking them on a fun-filled simple machines scavenger hunt through Boston, Massachusetts, Malcolm helps with their school project and prepares them for their trip to the factory. By visiting the potato chip factory, the girls learn how simple machines and the design of industrial systems make work safer for laborers. The trip inspires the girls to create a simple machine system of their own. Readers are encouraged to design systems and processes that make work easier by taking advantage of simple machines. With some creativity and knowledge of the engineering process, everyone can engineer!

Aisha Makes Work Easier: An Industrial Engineering Story (Museum of Science)

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An animal lover, Salila is disturbed to find a turtle in polluted water near her home in India. Salila's mother, an environmental engineer, and Dr. Ashok Gadgil, a scientist, help Salila learn about water pollution, microbes, and the ways that water can be purified. With this information, Salila begins to think about ways that she could filter pollutants out of the water. Will she be able to design a filter to help her create a pollution-free habitat for her turtle? Readers are invited to design a water filter to clean dirty water. With some creativity and the engineering design process, everyone can engineer!

Saving Salila's Turtle: An Environmental Engineering Story (Museum of Science)

Aisha Makes Work Easier

Boston Museum of Science

Kwame's Sound

Yi Min, a young girl living outside of Beijing, China, has a problem. A hungry bunny has started munching on the plants in her classroom garden. A trip to the Great Wall of China inspires Yi Min to enlist the help of her friend Chen in building a Great Wall of their very own.\n\nGrandfather, a former materials engineer, tells Yi Min about the materials he developed in his work. Yi Min begins to explore the properties of earth materials, and she realizes that not all materials are created equal when it comes to building a wall. Together, Yi Min and Chen design and build a bunny-proof solution for the school garden.\n\nReaders are invited to create and test a wall made out of earth materials. With some creativity and knowledge of the engineering design process, everyone can engineer!

Museum of Science Yi Min's Great Wall: A Materials Engineering Story

2011 Engineering is Elementary, Juan Daniel's Futbol Frog: A Bioengineering Story (P) Written by Melissa Higgins / Illustrated by Keith Favazza ***ISBN-13: 9781933758077 ***45 Pages

Juan Daniel's Futbol Frog: A Bioengineering Story

Published by Museum of Science, Boston

Suman Crosses the Karnali River

Museum of Science 
Engineering is Elementary: Engineering and Technology Lessons for Children project. http://www.mos.org/EiE 
Engineering is Elementary Team: Carolyn DeChristofano, Cathy Lachapelle, Kristin Sargianis, Kate Hester, Melissa Higgins, Christine M. Cunningham, Ben Schersten, Meredith Knight 
Illustrated by Ross Sullivan-Wiley 
Copyright 2006-2007, 2009 Museum of Science 
Picture book w/ 9 chapters. Introduces elementary school students to the engineering process to develop a maglev toy. Includes a brief glossary.

Hikaru's Toy Troubles A Transportation Engineering Story

A Gift From Fadil

Now that Lerato's older sister has a job, Lerato must care for her younger brothers and sister. Keepin them on task while doing chores, like gathering firewood, is hard work. Lerato knows that her job is an important one though, and her family needs her at home not away at university. When Tsoane, a woman from Lerato's village, returns for a visit during university break, she tells Lerato about green engineering and gives her a solar oven. If used correctly, the oven could eliminate the chore of gathering firewood. Lerato must use what she knows about heat energy and green engineering to improve the solar oven so it works. When Lerato's family sees the engineering she's done, their support helps Lerato realize university might not be so far out of reach after all.

Lerato Cooks Up a Plan

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