Construction: Plan Like an Engineer. Build Like a Builder. is a 192-page student workbook that teaches how buildings carry their weight, from the ground up. Written formiddle or high-schoolers, it uses clear, readable text, real photographs, and engineering stories to make forces,loads, and structures easy to picture.
Four lessons follow a building from the bottom up: Foundations, Floors, Walls, and Roofs.
Every lesson includes:
• True stories from real buildings, from Pisa and Venice to Chicago and the Westminster Hall roof
• Try It experiments that students can do with simple supplies
• A lab mission, where crews test designs, record data, graph results, and recommend a solution to a town
• A Build It project, where students measure, cut, drill, and fasten a wooden model with real boards and screws, then test it and compare it to a real building
