Zubrowski, Bernie

Presents directions for constructing simple houses, bridges, and other structures from drinking straws. These projects illustrate fundamental engineering principles.

Instructions for designing and building tops and yo-yos in different shapes and with various materials.

Directions for making three sizes of building blocks from milk cartons and for building structures commonly found in houses and buildings, including towers, furniture, and arches.

Suggested activities explore how mirrors work and how they demonstrate the properties of light.

Instructions for using readily available materials to make working models of different kinds of clocks with suggested experiments to discover how they work.

Explores how soft drinks are made, with experiments and activities that demonstrate the scientific principles involved.

Text and experiments introduce scientific principles that can be demonstrated with balloons and other inflatable toys.

Explains how a ball-point pen works. Presents directions for constructing tools and devices with parts of pens and for using them in experiments and demonstrations.