School Age S.T.E.A.M. Storytime & Craft: Building Bridges
Wednesday March 19th 4:30-5:30 p.m.
(geared to ages 5-9, but older/younger siblings are welcomed)
Registration Required.
For Women's History Month, we'll share the story of Emily Roebling, the "Secret Engineer" behind the Brooklyn Bridge, then experiment with building a variety of bridges.
As children arrived, had books for browsing on bridges, various versions of "The Billy Goats Gruff" and Rosie Revere, Engineer and other empowering picture books by Andrea Beaty
Read aloud the book Secret Engineer: How Emily Roebling Built the Brooklyn Bridge by Rachel Dougherty, booktalked the other books.
Explored tension/compression & created a human suspension bridge:
Acted out the story of The Three Billy Goats Gruff (no pictures)
Explored the strength of a beam bridge with this model:
And tested the strength of paper and straw-built bridges:
More details on all of these projects can be found here:
https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2017/07/fairytale-engineering-three-billy-goats.html
CSL Clarence Dillon Library March 2025
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