Bridges and Structure
Students focused on bridge construction, materials and structure. There
are a lot of bridges in their neighborhood from the highway and road
overpasses and the schuylkill river nearby. They've chosen to take a
closer look at the Henry Ave Bridge which crossed the Wissahickon Creek
and Lincoln Drive.
4th Grade
Fall Semester, 1996
Design Journal
Constructing a model of the Henry Avenue Bridge
- Height of the Henry Avenue Bridge
- Scale
- Sketching the Henry Avenue Bridge
- Using Tools to Recreate the Bridge
- Making the Sandwiches
- Making the Main Arch
- At the Daisy Field Quarry
- Mixing Mortar
- Facing Steel Skeleton With Stone
- Connecting the Pieces
- WHYY
- The Henry Avenue Bridge - Script for
taping at WHYY studio.
- The students visited WHYY studios to film a video segment about the
project they worked on. They talked about their investigation of the
existing bridge.
- how did you measure the bridge
- how did you build the model
- what materials is the bridge built out of
- what is the history of this bridge
- The students viewed the raw footage from the filming to assist in the
editing process. This enabled them to participate in how the story of
this bridge is communicated in the piece.
