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Explore Transportation! 25 Great Projects, Activities, Experiments travels on an adventure through time and around the globe to learn about the history and science of transportation. From camels to jet engines and pigeons to submarines, young readers will explore the unusual and exciting ways that civilizations old and new have moved people, information, and objects from place to place. The 25 easy-to-follow projects require minimal adult supervision and use primarily common household products and recycled supplies. Kids will have so much fun with Explore Transportation! they won’t even realize they’re learning about history, science, math, culture, and geography along the way. Projects range from making a homemade compass and flying a mini- parachute, to deciphering Morse code and locating the North Star. Exploring the evolution of the simple wheel all the way to the sophisticated and complex spaceship, kids will discover that imagination has the power to create huge changes in our world. By combining a hands-on element with riddles, jokes, fun facts, and comic cartoons, kids Explore Transportation! , and have a great time discovering all the ways we get around. focus on social studies Children’s ACtivity/eduCAtion resourCe Ages 6—9/grAdes 1—4 How long would it take to get to the nearest town in the 1800s? How fast could the first train move? How many miles do you walk in a year? EXPLORE TRansPORTaTiOn! Marylou Kjelle $12.95 ISBN: 978-1-934670-45-3 30% Postconsumer Recycled “Nothing has defined our modern existence more effectively than our ability to travel on land, sea, and air, as well as to move into space. Explore Transportation! traces the history of transportation and offers easy to understand and complete activities that children of all ages will enjoy and learn from.” —Roger D. Launius, Ph.D., Senior Curator, Division of Space History, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution “A fantastic introduction to the fascinating, ever-changing world of transportation. The combination of hands-on activities and interesting facts make it an ideal active learning tool. My daughters would love it.” —Brian L. Smith, Associate Professor, University Director— Smart Travel Laboratory, University of Virginia “ Explore Transportation! is a delightful and engaging book for elementary school age children, helping them understand how transportation plays a vital part in everyday life for them and millions of people around the world. Filled with facts, pictures, and fun things to do, children will enjoy seeing how transportation has evolved over time and how important it is in moving people and goods from one place to another, whether by horse, bicycle, auto, train, boat, plane, or spaceship.” —Robert S. Foyle, P.E., The Institute for Transportation Research and Education, North Carolina State University “Combining a sense of humor with valuable educational in- sights, Explore Transportation! introduces young children to the fascinating world of transportation. From an early age kids are naturally drawn to all modes of moving around. Explore Transportation! promises to inspire a new generation of stu- dents for my classes in transportation policy and technology.” —Professor Daniel Sperling, Founding Director, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis “Offers a concise exploration of transportation and how it has affected the human race. The universal idea of travel gives way to new inventions and Kjelle interprets them all. “ —James Vannurden, Director/Curator, National Museum of Roller Skating [...]... French Academy of Science impact: hitting onto something christopher columbus: the Italian explorer who discovered America for Spain while searching for a new route to China 9 standardize: to make everything the same metric system: a system of weights and measures based on the meter and the kilogram Explore Transportation! The basic unit of measurement of the metric system is the meter.The meter’s... were such which means to walk an important means of Alaskan transportation that in 1910, the United States government constructed the Iditarod Trail specifically for dog sled teams to travel between the Alaskan cities of Seward and Nome, with many stops in between 20 Animals for Transportation The airplane and snowmobile have mostly replaced transportation by dog sleds, but the spirit of the sled dog... more than just transportation Cheese and butter are made from yak’s milk Its butter is also used as oil to light lamps Yak fibers, which are about an inch long and come in brown, black, and white, are spun into wool for knitting, or woven into rugs and ropes The hides are made into lightweight, oval boats called coracles Yak dung is burned for fuel That’s a lot of yakking! 23 Explore Transportation! ... a cart yoke: a wooden frame for harnessing two animals to each other and to a cart or plow Circus Maximus: a large sports arena in ancient Rome Explore Transportation! Settling the West The invention of the wheel led to the invention of many other types of transportation Horse-drawn carriages appeared during the 1500s City dwellers could now be transported in a coach with two wheels, or in The oval... one year In 2008, Dean Karnazes, a Greek-American who calls himself “Ultramarathon Man,” won the 4 Deserts Series Championship for running through all four deserts in the shortest amount of time 13 Explore Transportation! Sleep W alking Are you a somnambulist? What about a noctambulist? Both of these names describe a person who walks in his sleep People who walk in their sleep will get out of bed and... prehistoric family had a dog, but they weren’t kept as pets They had to work Dogs helped hunter-gatherers transport things Dogs were harnessed to sleds, and they pulled heavy loads from camp to camp 17 Explore Transportation! Beasts of Burden BCE/CE Horses, donkeys, mules, and oxen were the animals most often used as beasts Notice the letters BCE after some dates This stands for of burden and pack animals... two Asian and African cities These humps and the Dromedary enormous animals need to drink up camel of North Africa and to 40 gallons (151 liters) of water each the Arabian countries has one day 19 Explore Transportation! Pack Animals and Their Countries Andes of South America—Llama Central Asia—Bactrian camel, Yak North Africa and Arabia—Dromedary camel Central and South Africa—Ox Eurasia—Ox, Horse... designed spacesuit that controlled his body’s temperature and provided oxygen Since the pull of gravity on the moon is less than on the earth, Armstrong looked like he was bouncing rather than walking 7 Explore Transportation! Astronauts wear special shoes that can handle all that impact.Years after the first moonwalk, Nike designed a sports shoe that contained a shock-absorbing material like that used in... received a drove a team of wolves all the way to the Chicago World’s fresh horse every 10 to 15 miles Fair to promote Alaskan • Pony Express horses traveled an statehood average of 10 miles per hour 21 Explore Transportation! What is Horsepower? James Watt, a Scottish inventor who improved upon the early steam engines, was the first person to use the word horsepower He worked during the nineteenth century,.. .Explore Transportation! They didn’t wear sneakers They didn’t even wear shoes.Very early peoples went barefoot Later, they wore sandals made from tree bark, wood, grass, or leaves When they moved from one . of transportation. From an early age kids are naturally drawn to all modes of moving around. Explore Transportation! promises to inspire a new generation of stu- dents for my classes in transportation. 2 Beasts of Burden Using Animals for Transportation 5 chapter 1 Walk a Mile in Your Shoes Transportation by Foot 1 introduction Let's Explore Transportation! 26 chapter 3 Merrily We. Laboratory, University of Virginia “ Explore Transportation! is a delightful and engaging book for elementary school age children, helping them understand how transportation plays a vital part