{"id":564,"date":"2019-10-28T08:20:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T15:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/?p=564"},"modified":"2019-10-25T19:38:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T02:38:17","slug":"crazy-contraptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/crazy-contraptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy Contraptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/crazycontraptions_0.jpg?resize=525%2C657&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"657\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9899\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2Wf5z06\">Crazy Contraptions: Build Rube Goldberg Machines that Swoop, Spin, Stack, and Swivel with Hands-On Engineering Activities<\/a><br \/>\nby Laura Perdew (Author) and Micah Rauch (Illustrator)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> Young engineers are invited to invent, design, create, and play as they make their own Rube Goldberg machines using the engineering design process and lots of imagination!<\/p>\n<p>Try these hands-on engineering projects!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Turn on a CD player<\/li>\n<li>Screw a lid on a jar<\/li>\n<li>Pop a balloon<\/li>\n<li>Make a zipline<\/li>\n<li>Make a balloon car<\/li>\n<li>Build a catapult<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/crazycontraptions_in1-595x372.jpg?resize=525%2C328&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"328\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9900\" \/><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6536\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/nonfiction.monday.jpg?resize=158%2C111\" alt=\"Nonfiction Monday\" width=\"158\" height=\"111\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nonfiction Monday!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crazy Contraptions: Build Rube Goldberg Machines that Swoop, Spin, Stack, and Swivel with Hands-On Engineering Activities by Laura Perdew (Author) and Micah Rauch (Illustrator) Booktalk: Young engineers are invited to invent, design, create, and play as they make their own Rube Goldberg machines using the engineering design process and lots of imagination! Try these hands-on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/crazy-contraptions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Crazy Contraptions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction-monday-round-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pam6qm-96","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1341,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/bach-to-the-rescue\/","url_meta":{"origin":564,"position":0},"title":"Bach to the Rescue!!!","author":"Anastasia Suen","date":"May 23, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Bach to the Rescue!!!: How a Rich Dude Who Couldn\u2019t Sleep Inspired the Greatest Music Ever by Tom Angleberger (Author) and Chris Eliopolous (Illustrator) @ Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound Booktalk: Every famous piece of art has an origin story--even Bach\u2019s Goldberg Variations! 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