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Posted: April 28 2009 at 8:33am | IP Logged Quote Barb.b
Hi, Does anyone know of a high school level book that has engineering hands on projects in it. Not a text book and really more then labs. I think we are looking for what my son can make. He has had physics and is looking for things to do. Hope this makes sense!

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Posted: April 28 2009 at 1:15pm | IP Logged Quote mooreboyz
I really like this book that I've pulled a few beginning concepts from for my boys. There are mainly high school level projects. My library has it:
     
The art of construction : projects and principles for beginning engineers and architects / Mario Salvadori ; drawings by Saralinda Hooker and Christopher Ragus.

Also, the site Building Big is very useful. There's a lot online, but also a book, activity/project book and video series. This was a PBS series. My lib carries this stuff too.

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Posted: April 28 2009 at 6:45pm | IP Logged Quote lapazfarm
I don't know if this is exactly what you are looking for, but the books "Backyard Ballistics" and "Whoosh, Bang Splat" (or something like that) have some excellent projects in them and go into good detail about the concepts behind the projects. My ds has them both and the projects have a range of difficulty from fairly simple to very challenging.

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My ds14 is currently using The Art of the Catapult by William Gurstelle to build a BIG ballista. So if your son would like to build a ballistae, a Roman onager, trebuchets and other ancient artillery this is the book for you.

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