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Young Engineers
Building Structures and Towers
Uses engaging nonfiction text and hands-on projects to help young readers explore real-life structure and tower engineering projects, including the science behind how these buildings are planned and built.
32 pages, Library Binding
Published January 1, 2017
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November 3, 2017
While many readers may want to skip the science and go straight for Enz’s engaging hands-on activities, the text does include simple explanations for footings, joists, columns, and x-braces. Enz uses engaging nonfiction text and hands-on projects to help young readers explore real-life flying structure and tower projects, including the basic scientific explanation behind how these buildings are planned and built. Brief but elegant.
July 27, 2018
Clear instructions about how to build simple structures to illustrate the brief lessons in the book about joists, beams, columns, shear walls and x-braces. Kids will learn how forces like compression and tension hold structures in place and keep them strong. Simple experiments involve easy-to-find household materials like spaghetti, tape, cereal boxes and gumdrops. Great resource for science lessons.
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