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5 children's books that teach valuable engineering lessons

By Michelle Forsythe, Assistant Professor of STEM Education, Texas State University
Julie Jackson, Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, Texas State University

Most people think of the children’s classic “Charlotte’s Web” as a story of devoted friendship between a spider and a pig. But it can also be read as a story of a budding engineer – Charlotte – who prototypes, builds, tests and revises her web to solve a problem.

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