University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania: Gary Soto "How Things Work"
This site, part of online course materials for a poetry class at the University of Pennsylvania, provides an overview of Soto's life and career, as well as the full text of his poem "How Things Work."
Hunkins Experiments
The Secret Life of Machines
An entertaining site that communicates ideas through cartoon drawings. Discover how simple machines and gadgets operate, such as fax machines and washing machines.
Read Works
Read Works: I Break Stuff for a Living
[Free Registration/Login Required] An autobiographical text about a young man who grew up interested in taking things apart to find out how they work, and how that later became career. A question sheet is available to help students build...
Harvard University
Harvard U.: Agency by Design: A Take Apart Toolkit: What We Learn From Unmaking
This article discusses the benefits of teaching students how to take things apart. Includes examples of how students record the process of disassembling something, what the parts are named, and their relationships of components to each...
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Harvard University
Harvard University: Project Zero: Agency by Design: Take Apart [Pdf]
Mechanical dissections are a practice that allows learners to discover the often hidden design of objects and how the parts work together as a system.