STEM in Our World: Travel Technology – Maglev Trains, Hovercrafts, and More

Description

STEM In Our World is an exciting and engaging series looking at new and future technologies

Combining current science with futuristic imagination, this informative series aims to reach out to the engineers and inventors or tomorrow with STEM subjects today

Can you imagine going on a trip into space? What about flying along at 300 miles an hour in a levitating train? Or clinging onto your seat at a 4D movie? Thanks to STEM, soon you can do all this and more! Science, technology, engineering and maths are bringing new toys, tolls and technological gadgets into our everyday lives. Come and meet Professor Tess Tube, and join her STEM school, where you will learn about the amazing gadgets and gizmos that are all around us.

While Back to the Future’s hovering skateboards hasn’t become reality yet, hoverboards can certainly help people get around today. From driverless cars to Japan’s amazing bullet train, travel technology has advanced by leaps and bounds for both individuals and large groups of people. Readers climb aboard these incredible inventions in this book, discovering the coolest ways technology is improving travel while learning about many STEM curriculum supporting topics along the way. Full-color photographs enhance a dynamic design that draws in readers for a wild ride.

Author Biography

An incredibly creative and talented author, John Wood has written about 60 books from BookLife Publishing. Born in Warwickshire, he graduated with a BA in English literature and English Language from De Montfort university. During his studies, he learned about literature, styles of languages, Linguistic relativism, and psycholinguistics, which is the study of effects of languages on the brain. Thanks to his learnings, John successfully uses words that captivate and resonate with children and that will be sure to make them retain information. His stories are entertaining, memorable, and extremely fun to read.