Rosie Revere, Engineer: 1 (Questioneers)

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Top Twinkl Tip ~ If you want a fun-filled lesson for Engineering Week, why not put a few of the resources from the above list together along with a reading of the Rosie Revere Engineer! Spelling Seeds have been designed to complement Writing Roots by providing weekly, contextualised sequences of sessions for the teaching of spelling that include open-ended investigations and opportunities to practise and apply within meaningful and purposeful contexts, linked (where relevant) to other areas of the curriculum and a suggestion of how to extend the investigation into home learning. Now perhaps if Andrea Beaty's presented poetry had been a trifle less awkward and stumbling (and with that, also not so utterly frustratingly distracting) and if her oh so very much important messages had been less in one's proverbial face and thus not so maddeningly preachy (about being courageous, about not being afraid of making mistakes, about trying again and again if and when disasters do occur, and yes, these are indeed important lessons for EVERYONE), I might have actually enjoyed Rosie Revere, Engineer. How does the artist show Rosie's many moods? How does she look different when she's happy, sad, disappointed, worried? Rosie is dedicated, determined, hardworking, creative, and kind. She thinks of helping others with her inventions. Her Aunt Rose is encouraging and teaches Rosie an important helpful message about failure on the road to success. Rosie's diverse family members are loving and supportive. Her diverse classmates are cheerful and excited to try making their own inventions.

This was a delight and a surprise. Maybe my expectations were just very low because my daughter brings home so many random, forgettable books from the library. Based on the title and cover art, I expected this to be a bland little girls-can-be-engineers-too, girly power kind of book. And then it turned out to be more than that and better than that, and I was delighted! I like the Questioneers series because I like science and engineering as well as art and the books feel like the combination of both subjects. I also like it because the books are like poems. The sentences rhymes. It was fun to read them. I read Rosie Revere, Engineer a few years ago and enjoyed it. I saw this at the library and had to see what it was all about.I have a freebie that is part of a larger resourceso that you can try it out in your classroom today! Teaching Engineering with Picture Books: Grade 4: Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty – Engineering Design: Learning Collaboration and Grit Calling all engineers! More than a dozen Rosie Revere, Engineer activities help kids build confidence, creativity, and problem-solving skills. Students will analyze characters and story elements, as well as interpret quotes from the story, and develop a new engineering feat! The activities included will allow students to:

The book was written by Andrea Beaty. It was illustrated by David Roberts. What genre is Rosie Revere, Engineer? A creative spirit learns that thinking “ish-ly” is far more wonderful than “getting it right” in this gentle fable from the creator of the award-winning picture book The Dot . I thought I would love this feminist children's book about a little girl engineer, but I had some problems. However, the combination of the author's unsubtly rendered (often choppy and to my ears woefully halting) verses (which both thematically and textually have felt rather totally contrived, artificial and as though Andrea Beaty is just and sadly trying way way too hard) and David Roberts's bright but exceedingly over-busy (and caricature-like) illustrations have truly and sadly rubbed me the wrong proverbial way (and furthermore, quite frankly, especially David Roberts' depictions of humans and in particular of Rosie and her family, well sorry, while some readers might indeed consider them cute, entertaning and playful, my own aesthetic conscience feels as though he is actually kind of poking exaggerated fun, almost as though David Roberts wants with his pictorial renderings to promote and even celebrate the attitude and impression that intelligent, that imaginative and innovative people, such as Rosie Revere and some of her nearest and dearest, must by mere necessity also appear as physically strange, with weird clothing, overly coiffed hair styles and the like, thus totally promoting and even enabling the sadly often true universal attiude that if one is intelligent and innovative one must and should physically look weird).

Common Sense is the nation's leading nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of all kids and families by providing the trustworthy information, education, and independent voice they need to thrive in the 21st century. Rosie Revere dreams of becoming a great engineer. Where some people see rubbish, Rosie sees inspiration. Alone in her room at night, shy Rosie constructs great inventions from odds and ends. Hot dog dispensers, helium pants, python-repelling cheese hats: Rosie’s gizmos would astound—if she ever let anyone see them. Afraid of failure, she hides them away under her bed. Until a fateful visit from her great-great-aunt Rose (aka Rosie the Riveter!), who shows her that the first flop isn’t something to fear—it’s something to celebrate. And you can only truly fail if you quit.

Her great-great-aunt Rose visits and mentions to Rosie that she still has one goal to achieve in her life. She wants to fly. Rosie lies awake that night, thinking of how she could help her aunt fly. She came up with the idea of making a cheese-copter. Totdat een overgroottante arriveert: je stelt jezelf doelen en die ga je dan halen.' Roza gaat weer aan de slag met de kaaskopter. Ze durft weer, valt èn staat weer op: doorzetten en het gaat lukken! Je haalt je doel, ga ervoor! 'Fout gaat het pas als je hebt opgegeven!' Rosie Revere loves to help people solve their problems. That’s why she’s trying to invent something to help her Uncle Fred with his problem. He’s a zookeeper and all the snakes just seem to be drawn to him. He can’t keep them away. Rosie has gone through 6 generations of her Snakeaway idea, but still hasn’t found the answer. But that’s okay, because Rosie knows you only fail if you stop trying.

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Young boys and girls will love their time spent with Rosie Revere. They’ll be captivated by the story and colorful illustrations, and also learn about the passion and practicality of science (STEM).