design and construction

Describes, in text and illustrations, the construction, function, and maintenance of different types of roads.

Although it will mean that their father can no longer make a living running a ferry boat, thirteen-year-old Mark and his brother Luke are excited about the building of a five-mile bridge across the Straits of Mackinac in Michigan in 1957.

Analyzes two important factors that affect student learning: formative assessment and grading, explains how to design and interpret three different types of formative assessments, track student progress, and assign meaningful grades, and includes detailed examples of applications in classrooms.

Contains step-by-step instructions for building various types of outdoor furniture, storage sheds, and decorations.

Describes the function of scientific equipment used in the fields of physics, meteorology, biology, and earth science and provides instructions for constructing these instruments.

The author shares the physical and philosophical aspects of building a writing cabin, an enterprise he embarked upon with the sometimes conflicting advice of an architect and a carpenter and completed over the course of two-and-a-half years of Saturday afternoons.

Provides an overview of the history of skateboarding, discusses regulations, and examines the process of designing, developing, and operating a skateboarding facility.

Profiles thirty award-winning robots from the 2007 FIRST Robotics Competition, with information on each robot's design, development process, and possible applications.

Discusses the design and construction of bridges throughout the history of the world; explaining the principles of physics for beams, arches, trusses, and other supporting elements; and describes the risks and challenges faced by the engineers of bridges.