Building the Golden Gate Bridge: An Interactive Engineering Adventure

by Blake Hoena

Overview

People living in San Francisco during the 1920s and 1930s are fascinated by the project to build the Golden Gate Bridge the worlds longest suspension bridge yet. Will you: Be a designer of the bridge, working to solve the many challenges created by such an enormous project? Work as a crewmember, accepting the dangers of laboring hundreds of feet in the air above the cold, swirling currents of San Francisco Bay? Experience situations taken from real life. YOU CHOOSE what you'll do next. The choices you make will either lead you to success or to failure.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781491404034
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	07/01/2014
Series:	You Choose: Engineering Marvels Series
Pages:	112
Sales rank:	535,486
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.20(h) x 0.30(d)
Lexile:	870L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Blake A. Hoena grew up in central Wisconsin, where he wrote stories about robots conquering the moon and trolls lumbering around the woods behind his parents house. He now lives in Minnesota and enjoys writing about fun things like history, space aliens, and superheroes. Blake has written more than fifty chapter books and dozens of graphic novels for children.

Table of Contents

Spanning the Golden Gate — Designing the bridge — Constructing the bridge — Standing the test of time.

Editorial Reviews

11/01/2014
Gr 5–8—These "Choose Your Own Adventure"—style books invite readers to assume roles as architects and builders of sites that set historical records in their magnitude. A bit of introductory history is followed by a stop-and-start account that asks readers to flip to different pages based on the choices they make. The fragmented nature of the series can be confusing, and despite the creative take on the topic, some of the writing is on the dry side. Readers who perservere will be presented with a grim, realistic view of the human cost of these large-scale projects (many of the options end with the death or dismissal of the worker) and some interesting sketches of history. Two "Further Paths to Explore" suggest exercises in reading and writing to aid students with key ideas and details. More ambitious than appealing, these will best serve as supplemental material for classroom units dealing with famous structures.

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