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Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"This title will take readers through the process of bottling maple syrup, starting in Canada where there are lots of maple trees. Readers will learn how maple syrup is gathered, processed, and bottled for them to buy and enjoy on their pancakes! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This title will take readers through the process of making cotton candy, from sugar cane fields, to sugar processing plants, and finally to fairs and carnivals where cool machines spin thin threads that are gathered to make yummy cotton candy!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Traces the steps taken in creating a pencil, including baking a mixture of graphite and clay for the pencil lead, carving grooves into cedar slats to hold the lead, forming the slats into pencils, and then adding paint, lacquer, and stamps.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Traces the steps taken in creating fireworks, describing how a firework includes three main parts surrounded by paper, how a flammable mixture is combined with other chemicals to create colors, and how the charges and fuses are placed to ignite the firework.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"This title will take readers through the process of making honey, beginning with honey bees and how they create honeycomb in their hives. Then it will show readers how honeycomb is gathered without harming honey bees, and how honey is extracted from it" --
12) Crayons
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Learn about the process by which wax and colored pigments are transformed into a beloved coloring tool.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"In the past, the thought of working in manufacturing might have conjured up images of standing in front of a conveyer belt. Today, manufacturing jobs are far more challenging--and more rewarding, too! Technology has brought about progress in virtually every industry, and the manufacturing industry is no exception. Participation in collaborative, STEM-based work spaces known as makerspaces offers a great advantage to those interested in manufacturing....
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Most products we use every day were made using manufacturing robots. Readers will be surprised to hear how common and important robots are in the manufacturing world. This book covers the history of manufacturing robots, as well as the newest robots that are used today. The many benefits of manufacturing robots are explained, as well as controversies behind their use. Reader will learn the technology behind several manufacturing robots and how they've...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"From helicopters to sneakers to smoke detectors to chocolate, uncover the stories behind everyday objects and how they're produced. With informative, step-by-step instructions and detailed illustrations, you'll learn how: Smartphone screens are assembled in impeccably clean rooms with .5 micron dust filters to ensure perfection. -- The polyethylene fiber that makes up bulletproof vests was originally created for use in tires. -- A Czech scientist...
20) How it's made
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"For 24 seasons and counting, How It's Made has been an enthralling presence on Science Channel, educating its viewers on the process of making everything from bread to bifocals and breaking down complex ideas and processes with language everyone can understand. A "how-it's-made" guide for relentlessly curious kids between the ages of eight and twelve, this book will teach young readers how the items they love and use every day come to be, with simple...