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Repurpose It: Invent New Uses for Old Stuff
Create amazing inventions and help the environment at the same time. In Repurpose It, youll invent a solar still, a bug robot, a textbook safe, and many other resourceful contraptions. When it comes to inventing, your imagination has no limits!
32 pages, Library Binding
First published January 1, 2012
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December 4, 2018
Summary:
This books talk about how to repurpose things. This book is very informational and it gives a lot of very helpful things you can use to repurpose stuff you never would have thought of. Throughout the book it talks about how to repurpose things into making a compost bin, a cool can cooler, solar still, buddy bug bot, textbook safe, lawn chair seat, and rain poncho.
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Oh I loved this and I would honestly love to try to make some of these things. I think this book gave great step by step instruction on how to make these things and I never would have thought to use these things to repurpose other stuff. This book was great!
Classroom:
I would love to have this book in my classroom. I would think students would really enjoy reading it and then as a project you could ask them to repurpose something for a project. They could use something they learned from the book or they could make something that they came up with all on their own. This could be a really fun way to learn how to repurpose things!
This books talk about how to repurpose things. This book is very informational and it gives a lot of very helpful things you can use to repurpose stuff you never would have thought of. Throughout the book it talks about how to repurpose things into making a compost bin, a cool can cooler, solar still, buddy bug bot, textbook safe, lawn chair seat, and rain poncho.
Like or not:
Oh I loved this and I would honestly love to try to make some of these things. I think this book gave great step by step instruction on how to make these things and I never would have thought to use these things to repurpose other stuff. This book was great!
Classroom:
I would love to have this book in my classroom. I would think students would really enjoy reading it and then as a project you could ask them to repurpose something for a project. They could use something they learned from the book or they could make something that they came up with all on their own. This could be a really fun way to learn how to repurpose things!
July 25, 2023
ReedIII Quick Review: Persuasive children's book highlighting the concept of recycling and reuse with fun projects.
July 27, 2014
Repurpose It: Invent New Uses for Old Stuff is a fun book. This book will teach you how to build a compost bin, make a solar still to clean salty water, make a poncho out of plastic bags and several other ideas to repurpose. Each section introduces a problem, gives you the properties of the item to be repurposed, ideas on how to repurpose the item, a plan, create (directions) and how to improve. Each section also includes some history of others and how they would repurpose.
The twin book for Repurpose It would be Just Grace Goes Green by Charise Mericle Harper. This is a chapter book for 7-10 year olds. This book is about a young girl, Grace, and her class which is going green. Though out the book Grace and her classmates learn three ways to save the Earth: Recycle, Conserve and Reuse. The book presents facts and history that the class is learning. It shows how Grace realizes the everyday things that she and her family can change to help save the planet. A couple of her ideas are to repurpose a fleece jacket into a pillow and decorating her water bottle and reusing it many more times instead of throwing it away. I paired these books because they are both about repurposing and in Just Grace Goes Green she learns how fun and rewarding it can be to go green and hopefully that will motivate the students.
The twin book for Repurpose It would be Just Grace Goes Green by Charise Mericle Harper. This is a chapter book for 7-10 year olds. This book is about a young girl, Grace, and her class which is going green. Though out the book Grace and her classmates learn three ways to save the Earth: Recycle, Conserve and Reuse. The book presents facts and history that the class is learning. It shows how Grace realizes the everyday things that she and her family can change to help save the planet. A couple of her ideas are to repurpose a fleece jacket into a pillow and decorating her water bottle and reusing it many more times instead of throwing it away. I paired these books because they are both about repurposing and in Just Grace Goes Green she learns how fun and rewarding it can be to go green and hopefully that will motivate the students.
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