Construction Resources

Primary Resources

Experts:

  • Parent - brought in tools, talked about repairs.
  • Manager of communications building under construction.
  • Parent - Architect of U of I football facility under construction.

Field site visits.

  • Communications building under construction
  • Football facility under construction
  • Walk past construction site on way to greenhouse field trip (Plants project)

Hands on materials

  • Boxes and junk
  • Collage materials
  • Geo-board
  • Lego
  • Pattern blocks
  • Paper
  • Rods
  • Place value blocks
  • Wooden blocks

Video data collecting

  • Video taken during first site visit.

Secondary Resources

Books

American Folk Song, Who's that tapping at the window. In Boardman, E., & Andress, B. (1981). The music book. USA: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

American folk game song, Old house. In Palmer, M., Reilly, M. L. & Scott, C. R. (1990). World of music, Morristown, NJ: Silver Burdett and Ginn.

Balterman, L. (1991). Girders and Cranes: A skyscraper is built. Chicago, IL: Albert Whitman and Company.

Bennet, R. (1988). The steam shovel. In Schneck de Reginiers, B. Moore, E., White, M. M. & Carr, J. (Selectors) Sing a song of popcorn. New York, NY: Scholastic Inc.

Blaine, M. (1975). The terrible thing that happened at our house. New York, NY: Parents' Magazine Press.

Britton & Miller M., (1988). Houses. In Schneck de Reginiers, B., Moore, E., White, M. M. & Carr, J. (Selectors). Sing a song of popcorn. New York, NY: Scholastic Inc.

Burton, V. L. (1939). Mike mulligan and his steam shovel. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.

Confer, C. (1994). Math by all means, geometry grades 1-2. Sausalito, Ca: Math Solutions Publications.

Couley, J. (1990). To town. Bothell, WA: The Wright Group.

Gibbons, G. (1983). New road! New York, NY: Harpers Collins Publishers.

Gibbons, G. (1986). Up goes the skyscraper! New York, NY: MacMillan Publishing Company,

Glover, D. (1994). Building: The hands on approach to science. New York, NY: Thomson Learning.

Haslam, A. (1994). Building. New York, NY: Two-Can Publishing.

Hennessy, B. G. (1994). Road builders. New York, NY: Penguin Group.

Hoberman, M. A. (1982). A house is a house for me, New York, NY: Puffin Books.

Hogner, F. (1986) From blueprint to house Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda Books.

Hunter, R. A. (1998). Into the sky. New York, NY: Holiday House.

Irvin J. (1993). Build it with boxes. New York, NY: William Morrow and Company.

Jerrard, J. (1992). The three little pigs, New Seasons Publishing.

Lowell, S. (1994). The three little javelinas. New York, NY: Scholastic Inc.

Macaulay, D. (1976) Underground. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.

Macaulay, D. (1980) Unbuilding. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.

MacGregor, A. & MacGregor, S. (1980). Skyscrapers. New York, NY: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books.

McGinley, P., X is 'Xcavation. In Huck, C. S., Jenkins, W. A. and Pyle, W. J. (1971). Keep a Poem in Your Pocket. Glenview IL: Scott, Foresman, and Company.

Melser, J. (1990). Sing a Song. Bothell, WA: The Wright Group.

Mursell, J. L., Tipton, G., Landeck, B., Nordholm, H., Freeburg, R. E. & Watson, J. M. (1956). At our house, Scraping-up sand, Bling blang, in: In Our Town, Music for Living. Morristown, NJ: Silver Burdett company.

Olsen, M. R. & Olsen, G. L., Archi-teacher, a guide to architecture in the schools. Champaign IL: Center for the Study of Art and Architecture.

Rockwell, A. & Rockwell H. (1971). The toolbox. New York, NY: MacMillan.

Schlein, M. (1952). Shapes. New York, NY: William Scott.

Schumaker, W. (1996). Dance! Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace & Company.

Scieszka, J. (1991). The true story of the 3 little pigs! New York, NY: Scholastic Inc.

Silverstein S. (1981) Shapes. In A Light in the Attic. New York, NY: Harper and Row.

Silverstein S., Tree House. In Schneck de Reginiers, B. Moore, E., White, M. M. & Carr, J. (Selectors) (1988). Sing a song of popcorn. New York, NY: Scholastic Inc.

Tippet, J.S. (1982). Building a skyscraper. In Poems and rhymes, childcraft, childcraft. Chicago IL: World book - Childcraft International.

Trivizas, E. & Oxenbury, H. (1993). The three little wolves and the big bad pig. New York, NY: Aladdin Paperbacks.

Tarsky, S. (1997). The busy building book. New York, NY: GP Putnam's Sons.

Wilkinson, P. (1996). super structures. New York, NY: Dorling Kindersley.

Wilkinson, P. (1995). Eyewitness books: Building. London, UK: Dorling Kindersley Limited.

Wilson, F. (1988). What it feels like to be a building. Washington D.C.: Preservation Press.

Zemach, M. (1990). The three little pigs. USA: Sunburst Books.


Music

Grieg E. (1872). The hall of Mountain King (Recorded by Karajan H. v., Wiener Philharmoniker [1987]), in Peer Gynt, Op. 46. London England: Jubillie, London Records.

Mussorgsky, M. Ravel, M. (1874). The Great Gate of Kiev (Recorded by Stokowski, L., New Philharmonia Orchestra [1966]). In Pictures in exhibition. London, England.


Visual Art

Broueghel, P. (1632). A village fete in honor of St Hubert and St Anthony. Warwickshire, England: Philip Green Educational Limited.

Buchanan, B. (1989). St. Simons, 1989. Barrett Kendall Publishing,

Campol, Reparando las redes. Barcelona, Spain: Private Collection.

Currier & Ives, Home to Thanksgiving. New York, NY: Shorewood Reproductions.

Lowry, L. S. (1945). VE day. Warwickshire, England: Philip Green Educational Limited.

Matisse, H. (1952). The snail. Warwickshire, England: Philip Green Educational Limited.

Mondrian, P. (1942). Broadway Boogie Woogie. Warwickshire, England: Philip Green Educational Limited.

Utrillo, M. Winter street scene. New York, NY: Shorewood Reproductions.

   
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