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What Visitors Say About How People Make Things
What Children Are Saying
- - World's coolest exhibit. I love to make things.
- - Hands-on. 'How its Made' Awesome!
- - I loved the room How People Make Things. My two favorite stations are scraping the wax and making stuff with the wax but everything was good!
- - Wow! That was so fun that I couldn't even believe my eyes!
What Parents Are Saying
- - My kids loved it, and so did we! The hands on activities are something that kids will always enjoy.
- - One of the very best travel exhibits we've been to- because it's so hands on. My 4 year old and 8 year old did everything. Fantastic!
- - I am a Grandmother. I think this is the best for kids and Mom & Dad. Show what goes on at work and how things are made, Great job. I will be back soon to see it again. Thank you for the good work.
- - As someone who grew up watching Mr. Rogers, I really liked this exhibit.
Mister Rogers' Factory Tours
Want to see the factory tours Mister Rogers and friends took to learn how wagons, plates, sneakers and other everyday items are made? Just click here!
Rich Task Activities
Open-ended investigations for individuals or groups designed by the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh's Education Department and based on standards from the International Technology Education Association (ITEA).
Activities from the International Technology Education Association's (ITEA) – Kids Inventing Technology (KITS) Series:
Exhibit Terminology
Websites
Books
Ages 4-8 | Ages 9-12 | Other Books
Ages 4- 8
My First Book of How Things Are Made: Crayons, Jeans, Guitars, Peanut Butter, and More
by George Jones
Scholastic, 1995
How Things Are Made
by National Geographic Society (U.S.) Special Publications Division
National Geographic Society, 1981
What Happens at a Toy Factory? (Where People Work)
by Kathleen Pohl
Weekly Reader Early Learning Library, 2006
Machines Inside Machines Series
Featuring titles on using screws, hinges, springs, levers, ramps, pulleys and gears.
by Wendy Sadler
Raintree Perspectives, 2005
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Ages 9-12
Design Challenge: Amazing Machines
by Keith Good
Evans Brothers Ltd, 2003
Gear Up!: Marvelous Machine Projects
by Keith Good
Lerner Publications, 2000
Shape It! Magnificent Projects for Molding Materials
by Keith Good
Lerner Publications
2000
All About How Things Are Made
by Kathleen Kain and Robert Byrd
World Book, 1995
The New Way Things Work
by David Macaulay and Neil Ardley
Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books, 1998
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Other Books
From Start to Finish Series
Featuring tours through some of America's most interesting factories where you can see and understand the whole manufacturing process--from raw materials through finished product. Items featured include
sneakers, guitars, trading cards, homes, snowboards, kids' clothes, pens, skateboards, pianos, music CDs and teddy bears. Age range varies.
Various Authors
Blackbirch Press
Vacuum Bazookas, Electric Rainbow Jelly, and 27 Other Saturday Science Projects
by Neil A. Downie
Princeton University Press, 2001
How Things Work
by Steve Parker
Kingfisher Books, 1990
Processes of Manufacturing
by Thomas Wright
Goodheart-Wilcox Publisher, 2004
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