models

Photographs and simple text introduce the techniques of building and flying model airplanes.

A simple explanation of model trains, how to get started in the hobby, and how to build up a layout.

Presents step-by-step, diagrammed instructions for making more than twenty-five kinds of paper airplanes out of sticky notes.

Examines how toy cars work, what their tires are made of, and how they move.

Instructions for using readily available materials to make models of machines such as pulleys, windlasses, and water wheels, with suggested experiments to demonstrate their capabilities.

Describes the history, popularity, and manufacture of various kinds of miniature vehicles and explains how to start a collection.

Gives instructions for building and flying a balsa wood glider including a pattern to trace and suggestions for handling such problems as breakage and finding lost planes.

Gives instructions for making toys resembling robots using materials found around the house.

Uses model rockets to teach the scientific concept of controlled experimentation, that is a situation in which all experimental trials are the same except for one feature which the scientist wishes to study and evaluate. Completing this step-by-step instructional program, which covers topics from construction of the rockets to their launch, will require seven sequential 50 minute activity periods.

Twelve-year-old orphan Measle Stubbs is shrunk down to half an inch tall and placed in a train set by his evil guardian, the Wrathmonk.