Emily Calandrelli
ADA Lace, Take Me to Your Leader
Stealth Science
Why this book counts
- Physics & Energy
- Engineering & Technology
- Story / Adventure
- Maker / Problem-Solving
Ada Lace, Take Me to Your Leader begins with Ada repairing a ham radio while her robot George creates complications. A mysterious transmission that sounds extraterrestrial makes antenna design, signal strength, call signs, and evidence-versus-imagination essential to the mystery.
The science inside
- Electricity & Magnetism
- Inventions
- Robotics & Coding
Your child will meet:
- A radio converts information into an electromagnetic signal and a receiver converts the signal back.
- Antenna design, height, obstacles, and distance can affect the strength of a received signal.
- Circuit components must be connected and protected from moisture for a device to work reliably.
- An unexplained signal is evidence of a transmission, not automatic evidence of extraterrestrial life.
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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 third novel in a fun illustrated chapter book series about an eight-year-old girl with a knack for science, math, and solving mysteries with technology. Third grader and inventor extraordinaire Ada Lace likes nothing more than to tinker with mechanics like her robot, George. Her latest project is to fix up a ham radio, something that she could use to contact people on this planet...and beyond. The only problem is that she just can't get it to work properly. During a sleepover, Ada's best friend Nina hears something strange coming from the radio in the middle of the night. A distant voice says, "Release the swarm!" convincing Nina that aliens are about to invade planet Earth. Could Ada and Nina have stumbled upon something...extraterrestrial?
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