Emily Calandrelli
ADA Lace Sees Red
Stealth Science
Why this book counts
- Human Body & Health
- Physics & Energy
- Engineering & Technology
- Maker / Problem-Solving
- Story / Adventure
Ada Lace Sees Red combines Ada's stalled competition robot with an art-class conflict about color and perception. Gears, robot testing, color theory, and color blindness converge in the solution, allowing an engineering problem and a human-vision difference to reshape Ada's relationships as well as her design.
The science inside
- Anatomy & Physiology
- Engineering & Design
- Sound & Light
- Robotics & Coding
Your child will meet:
- A robot combines structures and mechanisms that must be tested as a system.
- Engineers can improve a design by borrowing useful ideas from art and other fields.
- Color perception depends on how the eye and brain respond to light.
- Color blindness changes some color distinctions without making a person's entire vision colorless.
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Parent effort: Quick discussion
From Emily Calandrelli--host of Xploration Outer Space , correspondent on Bill Nye Saves the World , and graduate of MIT--comes the second novel in a brand-new chapter book series about an eight-year-old girl with a knack for science, math, and solving mysteries with technology. Ada Lace is building a new robot! She's determined to beat Milton in the upcoming robotics competition. But she's distracted--Ada finds her dad's art class impossible, while Nina is the star of the class, basking in the glory of being Mr. Lace's star pupil. When Mr. Lace suggests that Nina put on an art show, Ada becomes jealous and loses her temper. Now Ada isn't speaking to her dad, she's falling behind in art class, and she still doesn't know how to fix her robot. As the competition looms closer, Ada starts to wonder if there might be a way to use both science and art to solve her problems. Will Ada make up with her father in time to test her hypothesis? Or will her hurt feelings leave her seeing red and without a medal at the end of the day?
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