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Stash Eaves Gadgets Gizmos Inventions Helium Pythons Perplexed Dismayed Goals Hauled Flop Sputtered Whirled Lever
ABOUT THE BOOK
Rosie Revere has a passion or engineering imaginative inventions. She can turn ordinary trash into extraordinary gizmos and gadgets such as hotdog dispensers and even helium pants.
Rosie Revere, Engineer
, rom the powerhouse team o Andrea Beaty and David Roberts, celebrates the intrepid spirit o courageous inventors, emboldening young girls and boys to ollow in Rosie’s ootsteps and be unaraid to test their ideas, make mistakes, and learn rom them. Rosie’s wild and outlandish inventions give her a sense o purpose and pride. Tat is, until Uncle Fred the Zookeeper unintentionally dampens Rosie’s spirit o invention by laughing at her gif, a cheddar-cheese-spray-hat to keep pythons away. It takes a visit rom Aunt Rose (Rosie the Riveter) to teach Rosie a valuable lesson about the design process. Rosie’s spirit o invention lies within every young child.
Rosie Revere, Engineer
underscores the value o a wild imagination as Rosie learns that “Te only true ailure can come i you quit.”
About the Author and Illustrator
Andrea Beaty and David Roberts are the creators o
Ada Twist, Scientist
;
Iggy Peck, Architect
; and
Happy Birthday, Madame Chapeau
, among other award-winning children’s books. Out-o-this-world
Rosie Revere, Engineer
is currently orbiting Earth aboard the International Space Station as part o the Story ime rom Space program, storytimeromspace.com. Beaty lives just outside o Chicago. Visit her online at andreabeaty.com and on witter: @AndreaBeaty. Roberts lives in London.
VOCABULARY
Tese vocabulary words can be ound throughout the book (in the order they are listed). Use these words as a starting point or a vocabulary study with
Rosie Revere, Engineer
. Research shows that reading and discussing new words within the context o reading is one o the most effective ways to learn vocabulary.
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FUN ACROSS THE CURRICULUM
ACTIVITIES: Use these activities to extend student learning with
Rosie Revere, Enginee
r
MOTHERS OF INVENTION Female Inventors
Students learn about amous emale designers and pilots. Begin by sharing the amous aviators noted in the spread o Rosie’s journal, i.e., Harriet Quimby, Elisabeth Tible, E. Lillian odd, Bessie Coleman, Amelia Earhart, and Lynn Rippelmeyer. Research other proessions in which women have been successul as inventors. Visit Famous women-inventors.com to learn about other emale inventors, such as Mary Anderson, who invented the windshield wiper; Marion Donovan, inventor o disposable diapers; and Stephanie Kwolek, the inventor o Kevlar. Brainstorm characteristics that made them successul inventors.
INVENTION SPAN The Design Process
Explore the steps o the design process, i.e., observe, ask, build a prototype, test, improve, retest. Fill in the ollowing chart with students’ examples at each stage o the design process.
Observe:
What types o things can you observe?
Ask:
What types o questions can you ask?
Build:
What recyclables can you use to build your invention?
Test:
How can you test it?
Improve:
How can you improve it?
Retest:
What happened when you retested it?
QUIRKY QUESTIONS Developing questions that improve inventions!
urn each invention into a question that could spark a new, improved version o the same invention.
EXAMPLE
Dishwasher
How can a dishwasher stack dishes?
INVENTION
QUESTION
pencil ____________________________________________________________ shoe ____________________________________________________________ chair ____________________________________________________________ notebook ____________________________________________________________
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BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD Drawing Designs
Rosie draws a plan or each o her inventions. Students will draw a plan or a prototype o a new invention based on one o their questions rom “Quirky Questions,” using recycled elements rom the home or the classroom. Review the materials Rosie used, e.g., broom, skate, umbrella, streamers, doll leg, doll head, skateboards, Hula-Hoop, belts, steamers, spray bottle, fishing line, tennis ball, sander, shovel. All parts and materials should be labeled in a pencil-sketched plan first. Students will share their designs with the classroom.
WILD, WILD TEST Test and Retesting
Students will develop working prototypes o their plans rom “Back to the Drawing Board,” using recycled elements. Students will test their inventions; record their findings; make improvements based on their findings; and retest their inventions. *Note that the retesting phase should repeat over and over again, and usually does.
DESIGN JOURNAL
QUESTION 1
What happened the first time you tried your invention?
What can you improve?
QUESTION 2
How can you improve your invention?
QUESTION 3
What happened when you retested?
QUESTION 4
How can you improve your invention?
FAMOUS FAILURES Individuals who failed before they succeeded
“ If I find 10,000 ways something won’t work, I haven’t failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.” — Thomas Edison
Each o the ollowing individuals made mistakes and learned rom them. Match each individual in the first column with his/her great accomplishment.1. J.K. Rowling a. pop singer, songwriter, pianist2. Walt Disney b. mathematician and physicist3. Albert Einstein c. inventor o the Apple computer4. Steve Jobs d. creator o Mickey Mouse 5. Lady Gaga e. author and creator o Harry Potter