Tales of Engineering
Storybooks read by engineers. Hand-on activities for children and families
The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires is a delightful tale about a little girl who sets out to make the Most Magnificent Thing, with help from her faithful assistant dog. Making the Thing turns out to be harder than they’d expected, and the girl has to measure, hammer, fasten and adjust again and again. The thing keeps turning out wrong… if only it would just work!
Tales of Engineering – making magnificent things with children and their families …
After a few months of developing our website and getting our engineers to think about their research bookmarks (yes we have awesome bookmarks) we finally started taking our engineers into schools. One of the first visit we did was last wee, to a couple of schools in Darlington.
In the image below you can see Paula (right) and her most magnificent thing as imagined and built by children in a reception class.
Also last week, we took the Tales of Engineering project to this year’s Association For Science Education (ASE) Annual Conference at Reading University. This is one of the largest Science Education Conference of its kind and we were delighted to have engaged with teachers and practitioners, showcasing how storytelling can be used to talk positively about engineering with children in EYFS.
In the meantime we are keeping ourselves busy booking more schools and cultural venues visits, so keep checking our events calendar to see if we are going to be near you!
