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"A compilation of small projects to build with LEGO Technic parts, including gears, motors, gadgets, and other moving elements. Contains step-by-step building instructions for rack-and-pinion steering systems, sliding doors, grasping claws, and ball-shooting devices. Explores principles of simple machines, gearing, and power translation"--
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"...Showcases small projects to build with LEGO Technic gears, motors, gadgets, and other moving elements. You'll find hundreds of clever, buildable mechanisms, each one demonstrating a key building technique or mechanical principle. You'll learn to build four-wheel drive cars, adorable walking 'bots, steerable tanks, robotic inchworms, and cars that can follow the edge of a table! Each model includes a list of required parts and colorful photographs...
4) Energy experiments using ice cubes, springs, magnets, and more: one hour or less science experiments
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"Find out how energy is stored, transferred, and changed, what conducts and what stores heat, and how to change matter from a solid to a liquid to a gas"--Provided by publisher.
6) Energy
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Introduces energy resources, and provides instructions for an activity to demonstrate some of their characteristics.
9) Forces
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"Explains essential facts about forces and movement, including gravity, friction, pressure, and simple machines. Includes experiments"--Provided by publisher.
11) Pushes and pulls
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"Describes pushing and pulling forces, friction, gravity, and more. Includes experiments"--Provided by publisher.
14) Energy
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Introduces early readers to energy and how it plays a part in their everyday lives, including what energy is, where it comes from, and the forms it can take. Additional facts and graphic organizers such as charts and graphs provide more information about physics concepts.
17) What is energy?
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Discusses the changing forms of energy, kinds of energy, how energy is produced, alternative energy, and more.
18) Power and energy
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Examines inventions and technologies used to create power and energy, including those that utilized water, fossil fuels, and electricity as well as alternative sources of energy such as solar power. Features color photographs, diagrams and sidebars, a timeline, a glossary, and further resources.