A complete, ready-to-use classroom resource for grades 4–8, built around Linda Soules' So You Want To Be A Waterslide Tester. Inside: 35 scaffolded discussion questions organized by chapter, a 20-word kid-friendly glossary, seven hands-on activities, seven extension projects, nine writing prompts, full cross-curricular connections (math, science, social studies, ELA, visual arts, and health and physical education), and standards alignment with NGSS, Common Core, C3, the National Health Education Standards, and SHAPE America. Every activity fits a single class period and uses materials most classrooms already have — a plastic tray, a marble, a stack of books. Nothing requires a pool or a field trip, and every activity can be completed by a student who has never visited a water park. Designed to flex from a single-week physics-of-motion unit to a three- or four-week integration connecting force and motion, engineering design, technical writing, and the civics of who sets safety standards — or to be pulled apart and used in pieces across the year: the precise-communication activity in a technical writing unit, the sample-size activity in a data unit, the author's note in any discussion of work that succeeds by preventing something. Like the book itself, the guide trusts students with the real texture of the work: the delight and the standard, the thirty seconds that are the best job in the world and the seven hours and fifty-some minutes of flow meters and fiberglass inspection, the inch of water that is the entire margin between a perfect summer afternoon and a serious injury, and the tester who says not yet with the opening date already advertised. Includes a thoughtful teacher's note on handling injury content and the 2016 closure of the world's tallest slide.