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How a Skyscraper Is Built

by Therese M. Shea
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The towering buildings that fill our cities definitely weren't built in a day. Skyscrapers are huge construction projects full of complicated steps. From drilling anchor holes and erecting steel beams to laying acres and acres of concrete, it takes lots of people and lots of smarts to build a vertical city. Readers will love putting on their hard hats and seeing the construction for themselves through vivid photographs and diagrams of a building on its way from its beginning on an empty lot to a monster skyscraper touching the skies.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Engineering Our World

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    December 15, 2015

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781482439380

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781482439380
      • File size: 6987 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • ATOS Level: 5.3
    • Lexile® Measure: 970
    • Interest Level: K-3(LG)
    • Text Difficulty: 4-7

  • Reviews

    • School Library Journal

      April 1, 2016

      Gr 1-3-Just the ticket for getting young readers to think like engineers, these glimpses behind the scenes focus on design considerations, materials, and manufacturing steps. Skyscraper, for example, covers preliminary considerations from wind to number of elevators needed, explains the benefits of using steel and reinforced concrete, shows tall buildings at different stages of construction, and then closes with an excellent project that tests bunched "towers" of rolled-up newspaper for stability with an electric fan. Likewise, Bridge introduces terms like rebar and cantilever; Plane explains the physics of flight; and, along with showing the innards of a desktop from motherboard to cooling fan being assembled, Computer invites readers to build their own, and to write their own programs. Each volume begins with snatches of historical background, and closes with small but select resource lists. VERDICT Excellent choices for heightening awareness of important elements in our infrastructure.

      Copyright 2016 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

Formats

  • OverDrive Read
  • EPUB ebook

subjects

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • ATOS Level:5.3
  • Lexile® Measure:970
  • Interest Level:K-3(LG)
  • Text Difficulty:4-7

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