design and construction

Explains how to build and perform activities with models of towers and bridges to illustrate the principles used in designing and constructing such structures.

Photographs and simple text explore a sports stadium, focusing on behind-the-scenes places, such as the broadcast center, locker rooms, and luxury suites.

Provides all the basics of animal care from maintaining a small terrarium to creating a backyard that attracts wildlife.

Provides ideas, tips, and patterns for making a sharp-looking, fast car to race in the Cub Scouts' Pinewood Derby.

Follows limestone from the quarry to the factory where it eventually is formed into cement and ultimately becomes concrete and is made into a bridge.

Examines the life cycle of electronic devices such as cell phones and handheld games, covering design, protypes, production, marketing, and maintenance.

Discusses green buildings, materials, and transportation, the effects of pollution and climate change, alternative energy, and other energy sources, and includes information on famous scientists and a glossary.

Discusses the history, purpose, and construction of the Chunnel, a railroad tunnel that crosses the English Channel, uniting England and France.

Explains how science and technology influence the designs of cars and motorcycles, describes the forces that act on vehicles, how they are controlled, and what they are made of, and discusses intelligent cars, friction, hybrid cars, and other related topics.

Describes the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, from its conception by John Roebling in 1852 through, after many setbacks, its final completion under the direction of his son, Washington, in 1883.