engineering models

"Did you know that engineers use models to communicate their ideas to others? A model is a representation of a real object. Learn more in How Engineers Build Models, a title in the What Engineers Do series"--Provided by publisher.

Explains how models are useful in designing roller coasters, buildings, and more, and presents puzzles and activities designed to help young readers understand the information that can be represented with models.

Text and illustrations look at how engineers use different kinds of models and what makes them alike and how they are different.

Text and illustrations look at how engineers use different kinds of models and what makes them alike and how they are different.

Text and illustrations look at how engineers use different kinds of models and what makes them alike and how they are different.

Presents directions for constructing simple houses, bridges, and other structures from drinking straws. These projects illustrate fundamental engineering principles.