Roles
Important People
Parts of a Bridge
Practicing Scale
To Scale or Not to Scale
100
Designs the building’s frame and foundation.
Who is the Structural Engineer?
100
She was the wife of Washington Roebling.
What was Emily Roebling?
100
This is the part of a bridge that you walk or drive on.
What is the deck?
100
If the scale is 1:10 and the scaled drawing is 3 inches, this is the size of the object in feet in real life.
What is 30 feet?
100
Building a chair identical to the one in your kitchen.
What is drawing NOT to scale?
200
Knows all about different soils and rock formations below the earth’s surface, gathers information that the structural engineers will use to design the foundation.
Who is the Geotechnical Engineer?
200
The engineer son who took over during the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge when his father died.
What is Washington Roebling?
200
This is a support at the end of a bridge that joins to the land.
What is an abutment?
200
If the scale of a drawing of a door is one centimeter per two feet, and the door is 8 feet long, how many centimeters will the drawing be?
What is 4 cm?
200
Drawing an accurate picture of the Brooklyn Bridge on graph paper.
What is drawing TO SCALE?
300
Checks that the property lines at the site are correct and notes special features of the land, like slopes or wet spots.
Who is the Surveyor?
300
The engineer who designed the Brooklyn Bridge.
Who is John Roebling?
300
This is a type of bridge that is easy to build and less expensive to make but cannot be built very tall.
What is a beam bridge?
300
If the scale of a model of a train is one inch per three feet, and the train is 39 feet long, how many inches will the drawing be?
What is 13 inches?
300
Outlining your hand on a piece of paper.
What is drawing NOT to scale?
400
Designs the HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems) and the plumbing.
Who is the Mechanical Engineer?
400
He designed the Eiffel Tower and supplied the framework for the Statue of Liberty.
Who is Eiffel?
400
This is a support only found on a suspension bridge, that rises above the bridge.
What is a tower?
400
If the scale of a model of a building is one centimeter per four feet, and the model of the building is 8 centimeters long, how many feet is the actual building?
What is 32 feet?
400
Making an accurate floor plan of a house on graph paper.
What is drawing TO SCALE?
500
Designs the skyscraper, determining its height and shape, choosing its style and selecting the building materials to fulfill her creative vision of the building.
Who is the Architect?
500
The first person to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge.
Who was Emily Roebling?
500
This is a support in the middle of a bridge that holds everything up.
What is a pier?
500
If the model is 20 cm and the actual object is 100 feet, what is the scale?
What is 1 cm:5 feet?
500
A toy car that is proportional in dimensions to a real car.
What is creating a model TO SCALE?
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