Break down Explosions, implosions, crashes, crunches, cracks and more... a How Things Work look at how things don't
Book - 2022
"In this book, kids will learn the fascinating ways that things work by learning how they come apart"--
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Trivia and miscellanea
- Published
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Washington D.C. :
National Geographic
[2022]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- 208 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
- Audience
- Ages 8-12
Grades 4-6 - Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-199) and index.
- ISBN
- 9781426373053
9781426373060
- Another one bites the dust
- Out with a bang: Building demolition
- We've got a job to do: Demolition engineer
- Crushing it: Car crushers
- Timber!: Taking down giant trees
- Smash it up: Wrecking balls
- Lesson learned!: Demolition disaster
- Look out below: Breaking bridges
- Try this!: Da Vinci Bridge: make a bridge out of craft sticks
- Built to break
- Crash compactor: Safe car design
- We've got a job to do: Crash-test Engineer
- Shock absorber: Electrical fuses
- Big bangs: Exploding fireworks
- Lesson learned!: Fireworks fail
- Head protector: Helmet technology
- Burn, baby, burn: Self-destructing spacecraft
- Try this!: Snack smasher: build a package to protect a precious treat
- Famous failures
- The Titanic: Iceberg encounter
- Sticky situation: The Great Molasses Flood
- We've got a job to do: Forensic engineer
- Up in flames: the Hindenburg
- Lesson learned!: Buckling Bridge
- Tippy tower: The Leaning Tower of Pisa
- Sinking stadium: The Minneapolis Metrodome
- Not-so-great Pyramids: Failed wonders of the world
- Try this!: Incredible edible edifice: Build a strong tower, then watch it fall
- Destructive by nature
- Swallowed up: Sinkholes
- Shake it up: Earthquakes
- Lesson learned!: One big quake
- Gone to rot: How things decompose
- Avalaaaaanche!: Fast-moving snow slides
- We've got a job to do: Storm chaser
- Plague of pests: Locusts
- Try this! Apple mummies: Keep apples from decomposing
- Everyday chaos
- The big burst: Popping balloons
- Screen saver: Shattering smartphones
- We've got a job to do: Skateboard smasher
- Say "Aaaaah!": Tooth decay
- Super skeleton: Broken bones
- Metal destroyer: Rust
- All backed up: Clogged toilets
- Lesson learned!: The great sink
- Try this! A bit rusty: Discover how to make rust, and stop it from forming in the first place.