Construct It! Architecture You Can Build, Break, and Build Again

Cool Makerspace Gadgets & Gizmos

by Jessie Alkire

Makerspaces are places designed to inspire creativity and collaboration. In Construct It! Architecture You Can Build, Break, and Build Again, kids will build a working wrecking ball, pulley elevator, bridge, and more! Colorful step-by-step photos bring each project to life. Techniques and tips help troubleshoot and use the materials within the makerspace. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

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Published January 1, 2018

Reviews

[Andrew · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book only gets a lower rating because all of the activities in the book are Lego (which is fine), just call it that instead...
Only has 6 activities in it, including a wrecking ball, a pulley elevator, a "candy" stripe castle, a K-Nex bridge, a Bird feeder and a scale size model bedroom....

So meh...

[Nurul · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting book explaining how to use Lego or K'nex to construct architectures.

[Diane · Rating 3 out of 5]

How to build different structures such as a model bedroom, double-decker bird feeder, pulley elevator, wrecking ball, and more.

Most require either K’nex or Legos.

[Kris · Rating 2 out of 5]

Pass on this one. Nothing wrong or incorrect, but not enough activities. One is Knex, another is cardboard box, four are lego. And I have tons of lego books and so do the kids.

[Tye the librarian · Rating 2 out of 5]

I really wish this book had more projects than just lego and K'nex, or at least had said on the front that that's all it is.