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KidBridges: A Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge

Investigate the Brooklyn Bridge--or a landmark near you--and use it as a tool to teach math or science, art or the humanities.

See student-devised problems solved, on-site and in the classroom. Read students' journals from the project, then download materials as a guide to do it yourself. 

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KidBridges: The Art of Bridge Construction

Follow along as two teachers and their students spend a semester learning about the forces that act upon bridges. Watch them testing paper columns and homemade concrete beams.

Includes lesson plans and assessment rubrics, along with video interviews with the math and science teachers who developed and implemented the curriculum.

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The Art Of Construction

Discover our complement and extension of The Art of Construction, making the book a more powerful teaching and learning tool for use in middle school and literacy courses.

Click through the units to explore how the built environment influenced - and was influenced by - historical and technological developments.

 

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The Salvadori Curriculum: Lessons from the Salvadori Classrooms

The Salvadori Curriculum: Lessons from the Salvadori Classrooms Over the span of its thirty-year history, the Center's educators have generated many lesson plans for classrooms, workshops, professional development Institutes, charrettes, after-school programs, demonstrations, and site-specific events.

We now make these available for free download to use as you see fit.

Please note that these lesson plans do not represent the Center's current curriculum or practice -- they are offered as legacy documents from three decades of practice.