Technological Design

Reading and Materials List

Required Books

• Amazing Leonardo da Vinci Inventions You Can Build Yourself by Maxine Anderson

Materials

Common Materials

• scissors
• ruler
• craft sticks (kit)
• rubber bands (kit)

Lesson 2

• blank paper

Lesson 5

• cardboard shoe box top* (5.1 - Option 3)
• drawing materials (pencils, paint, brushes)
• drawing paper or canvas* (5.1 - Option 1)
• drinking straw* (5.1 - Option 3)
• old shoe box* (5.1 - Option 3)
• pencil with eraser* (5.1 - Option 3)
• playing card or stiff cardboard* (5.1 - Option 3)
• small Styrofoam or wax cups* (5.1 - Option 3)
• stapler* (5.1 - Option 3)
• straight pins* (5.1 - Option 3)
• raw eggs* (5.1 - Option 1)
• 5 plastic containers, small * (5.1 - Option 1)
• tape measure (kit)* (5.1 - Option 3)

Lesson 6

• materials will vary

Lesson 8

• metal clothes hangers
• nylon pantyhose or cotton t-shirts
• raw egg

Lesson 9

• string (kit)
• brick
• sandpaper (kit)

Final Project

• bucket with handle
• glue
• piece of nylon rope (kit)

* - denotes an optional material that may or may not be used