PipBy Pip Learning · Printed A4 workbook · Ages 8 to 12
100 hands-on STEM activities, puzzles and builds that teach your child to think like an engineer. On paper, with a pencil, at their own pace.
Looking for the games? Play Pip on the app. The book and the app are separate, and they work best together.
The world is changing fast, and today's children will lead it. As AI takes on more of the heavy lifting, the next level beyond coding is thinking like an engineer: breaking a problem down, testing ideas and finding a better way. This workbook starts those habits early, and makes them fun.
School usually has one right answer at the back. Engineering does not. A truck can cross a bridge with strong planks or weak ones, a neat layout or a messy one. Both can work. Kids soon spot that there is a more efficient way, and they want to find it.
Every page invites a guess, a test and a fix. A wobbly bridge is a clue, not a failure. Kids get the freedom to explore, test and fail, then improve, which is exactly what real engineers do.
Each activity is a real-world problem on Cogwell Island: pipes, circuits, cranes, robots, rockets. It is applied problem solving and outside-the-box thinking, not trivia.
Every one of the 100 activities follows the same friendly shape, so kids always know where to start.
A journey round Cogwell Island, one zone at a time.
Gears, levers, pulleys, ramps and springs.
Circuits, logic gates, solar and wind.
Pipes, pressure, valves and leak hunting.
Bridges, towers, arches and earthquakes.
Routes, timetables, traffic and conveyors.
Algorithms, loops, sensors and debugging.
Paper planes, balloons, rockets and landers.
3D views, nets, scale and blueprints.
Food webs, recycling, greenhouses and weather.
Capstone inventions and the final exam.
Just a few. There are 100 more where these came from.
These are the skills that last, from fixing a bug to designing a bridge. Coding, maths and science all lean on them.
Ages 8 to 12. Part 1 of every page is an easy start, and the Engineer's challenge stretches confident kids.
No. The workbook is a complete printed book on its own. The Pip app is a separate way to play, with endless games. Many families do both.
Yes, at the back. Every closed question has a worked answer, and open-ended tasks show a good example.
A pencil, an eraser and a ruler. Hands-on pages use safe household items, and anything with scissors, heat or water says Ask an adult.
Yes. Pages can be done in any order, and each takes about 15 to 25 minutes.