creative ability in science

A chronicle of the author's life as a maker, an exploration of making and of his own productive obsessions, but it's also a permission slip of sorts from the author to the reader. Permission to grab hold of the things you're interested in, that fascinate you, and to dive deeper into them to see where they lead you. Through stories from forty-plus years of making and molding, building and breaking, along with the lessons learned along the way, this book is meant to be a toolbox of problem solving, complete with a shop's worth of notes on the tools, techniques, and materials that the author uses most often, but advice that can also serve as life lessons for a creator. This toolbox also includes lessons from many other incredible makers and creators, including: Jamie Hyneman, Nick Offerman, Pixar director Andrew Stanton, Oscar-winner Guillermo del Toro, artist Tom Sachs, and chef Traci Des Jardins. And if everything goes well, this book will hopefully save you a few mistakes (and maybe fingers) as well as help you turn your curiosities into creations, inspiring you to build, make, invent, explore, and -- most of all -- enjoy the thrills of being a creator.

"Makerspaces are places designed to inspire creativity and collaboration. In [this book kids will] make a mini helicopter fly from a circuit-controlled helipad, build a motorized LEGO car, and more. Step-by-step photos bring each project to life."--Back cover.

Argues that the natural sciences have been among the most successful of human enterprises despite their flawed and fallible history, and explores the complexities of scientific evidence and the many ways the sciences have refined and amplified the methods of everyday empirical inquiry.

Presents a collection of essays that ruminate on the distinction between art and science--how humanists and scientists perceivec the world--with in-depth portraits of famous thinkers such as Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, and Edward Teller.

Provides information on techniques to use in the science classroom to better encourage student's understanding of key concepts, and includes seventy-five "Science Formative Assessment Classroom Techniques," which covers focused learning, interest scales, synectics, and others.

The co-founder of "Skeptic" magazine explains why people are so willing to believe in mind reading, alien abductions, ghosts, and other manifestations of pseudoscience, and discusses how such wrong thinking can lead to very real danger.

Learn about many different scientific principles and facts through activities and craft projects.

A collection of profiles of children and young adults whose scientific inventions made an impact on the world, including Louis Braille who discovered a way for the blind to read and write.

Presents questions to promote brainstorming and creativity in science, and then to take that idea and make it work.