How would you have reacted – followed your dream anyway or changed what you wanted to study in college? The results of Lonnie’s career exam showed that he would not make a very good engineer. How might Lonnie’s life have been different if after the kitchen fire his Mother had forbade him from conducting any more experiments? What do you think it was like to be Lonnie’s brother or sister when he was growing up? How about his parents? When he was a boy, do you think Lonnie had a lot of friends? Why or why not? Use aluminum foil to design a boat that really floats.īuild marble runs out of cardboard tubes, plastic pipe, or swimming noodles.ĭesign a “robot” out of cardboard and other recyclable materials.ĭo you have an idea for an invention – something you would like to improve or something totally new? Use newspapers to build a chair that is strong enough to support you.Ĭonstruct a roller coaster for a ping pong ball using drinking straws and clay. Look at the endpapers in Whoosh! for examples.ġ0 Great Inventions Dreamt Up by Children:Ī Guide to Filing a Design Patent Application:īuild a bridge with marshmallows and toothpicks that is strong enough to hold a matchbox car. Illustrated Graphic of Spacecraft Galileo:Ī Student’s Guide to Global Climate Change:ĭraw a blueprint for a treehouse or maybe an invention, either by hand or use an app.

Windows to the Universe Just for Fun Games– – Gather junk in space Planet sudoku and more: NASA Kids Clubhouse – Puzzles, Space Lunch, Color Pages, and more: Jumbled Jets-put them in the correct order: What type of engineer are they? Has their job description changed? Timeline of the History of the Super Soaker: Illustrator Interview with Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators: Illustrator Interview with Cynthia Leitich Smith: Interview with Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators: Illustrator Interview Related Activities & Resources: Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions

Whoosh! by Chris Barton