Book Info
This book tells the tale of Rosie Revere, a young girl who dreams of becoming a great engineer. She creates fantastic inventions with everything from wire and old fans to spray cheese and doll parts. When people laugh at Rosie’s gizmos, she’ll need help from a special friend to find the courage to follow her dreams.
Source: Andrea Beaty
Videos
Snakes! at the Midwest Museum of Natural Hiss-tory
Engineering a Rosie Revere Snake Helmet with Pettee Guerrero
Building Snake-Repelling Hats at DuPage Children's Museum!
Rosie Revere, Engineer: Engineering & Discovery with Author Andrea Beaty
The Joys of Mechanical Engineering
Activities
Check out photos from our Rosie Revere, Engineer event at our Rosie Revere, Engineer photo gallery.
Help Rosie Reach Her Dreams!
Play this online game to learn more about engineering and to help Rosie discover her dream job.
Read! Question! Think!
Check out these fun printables from Andrea Beaty’s website.
Educators
Idea Sparks and Mini Lessons
These questions, prompts, and short activities provide quick ways to inspire interest and explore the STEAM concepts related to the book. Idea Sparks and Mini lessons can also be used for differentiation and to foster new ideas of your own.
Create a Snake-Repelling Hat
Were you inspired by one of Rosie’s inventions? Create a snake-repelling hat to help keep snakes off your head. Learn interesting facts about snakes and what keeps them away while using the engineering design process to construct a hat. Think outside the box and put on your creativity cap!
Engineering Design Process Handout
Let your students learn: What is the Engineering Design Process?
Download the Engineering Design Process Handout.
Rolling Robots
Rosie loves to build things. Sometimes they work and sometimes they don’t. In this inter-disciplinary lesson, students will create a “robot” and then try out different objects to see which will best help their robot creation roll down a ramp. The lesson can easily be divided into 2 sessions, one for creating the robots and one for the testing sequence.
Teacher’s Guide
Check out author Andrea Beaty’s Rosie Revere, Engineer Teacher Guide.
This teacher guide provides a lesson and template for making a paper plane. For additional templates, tutorials, and information of the science of flight, check out the I Am Amelia Earhart activities page.
Video Discussion Guide
Watch the videos and then use these questions to facilitate classroom discussions about the topics presented.
Download the Video Discussion Guide.
About the Author
Andrea Beaty
Andrea Beaty grew up in a small town in southern Illinois. She spent her time drinking Orange Crush, reading Nancy Drew, and secretly dreaming of becoming a Broadway star. Instead of belting out show tunes for a living, Andrea decided to go to college. She attended Southern Illinois University and majored in Biology and Computer Science. After working at a computer software company and as a technical writer, Andrea began writing for children. Other titles by Andrea include Iggy Peck, Architect and Ada Twist, Scientist.
Learn more at andreabeaty.com.
Source: Andrea Beaty
