Brooklyn Bridge, The |
Publication Information
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Author: Mann, Elizabeth |
Illustrator: Witschonke, Alan |
Title: Brooklyn Bridge, The |
Date: 1996 |
Publisher: Mikaya Press |
City: New York, NY |
ISBN, paperback: 0-9650493-0-2 |
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ABE/ABLE:
Yes |
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Young Adult:
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Picture:
Yes |
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General Information:
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Book Type(s):
nonfiction, biography and autobiography
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HSE Descriptor(s):
science| math
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Summary: |
This award winner tells the history of an unusual American family, the history of an important U.S. bridge, and the story of how that bridge was crafted and designed. It ends with a list of statistics and an index. |
Teaching Ideas: |
This fabulous book uses clear, simple sentences and diagrams to explain complicated construction. Students may want to read the charts and illustrations in the context of an engineering or architecture theme. The human interest of father/son and husband/wife add a rich dimension not always present in an expository book. Students may want to follow it with research on other Roebling bridges. They could work out a scale model or make long paper tapes of some of the measurements. Cleveland students may want to study the bridges near the Flats, the WPA project bridges. They may be interested in learning what the cure for the bends was and anatomically what pressure does to the body.
www.inventionfactory.com/history/main/html, www.endex.com/gf/buildings/bbridge/bbridge/html, www.greatbuildings.com/buildings.Brooklyn_Bridge.html |
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Matrices or Charts
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/matrices_charts.pdf
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