Engineering (2)
- 2. Table of Contents 1.Introduction 2.Tools 3.Things to Build 4.Sizes of Wood 5.Materials 6.Captions 7.Glossary Page 1
- 3. Page 2 Introduction Engineered building complete! Hey,that building is really tall! Maybe fifty or sixty feet. Have you ever seen a skyscraper? Have you ever BEEN on a skyscraper? Guess how they made it. Engineering! You need tools,materials,and other unique stuff to build. And your just about to find out how to be a builder and maybe become a pro one! People building a house. That's what you might become!
- 4. To engineer you need to have tools. Here are some basic and popular tools. The Screwdriver,hammer,wrench,drill,and more. My favorite is the Drill. You use the drill like a screwdriver, except it is automatic. Tools are usually made out of metal or steel. What is your favorite tool? You sometimes use a pen or a pencil to mark something like how long something is. Difference is really important.A Screw has a very sharp point and it has groves that swirl around the long part. Screws and Screwdrivers are very different. You use the Screwdriver to fasten the Screws into the material. The Screws hold the structure together. That is a example of a difference. You use tools often and they are important. Tools Page 3 An example of a pen and pencil that you might use to mark how long something is.
- 5. Things to Build There are many things to build. We need shelter in the world to help us survive. Here are three things that are important in are lives. Shelfs,benches,tables,and so on. All three things I just talked about hold stuff because that is what there meant for!Things we build are tall to live in, low to sit in and just to use in are life. They usually have good balance because they need good balance so they don't fall over! Balance keeps things stable. I like the work bench because you use it to build things. Things to build are very important. Many things to build are important because we use them in our lives. Hold on though,we still have more to go! Page 4 An example of shelter. A house is one of the uses of shelter and is also something you build.
- 6. Sizes of Wood Page 5 This is a piece of wood that was measured to 4 ft. by 10 in. First you have to know that wood and lumber come from trees. If we didn't have trees,we would not have stuff like homes,buildings,and other important things in our lives. You have to make the wood the right size,but I need to tell you something,the size is never perfect. Sizes of wood can be long or short and when we talk about sizes of wood we mean the length of wood. When you talk about length it's how long or short the size is of what your using. Let's start out with some basic sizes of wood. Maybe 3 by 6,7 by 9 and so on. Wood is just material and materials are just usually straight long boards that we use to build stuff. We will talk about materials in the next chapter. But remember,the size is never perfect!
- 7. Materials You NEED materials to build!!! If you don't have materials you can't build anything. Some basic materials are lumber,wood,bark and so on. Like I said in chapter three, materials are long and straight for the purpose of building things. You can make the material short though sometimes. My favorite material is lumber. You would probably want to use the right materials. For example. If I was building a dining room table,I would probably want to use wood right? Not stone. As I said in the beginning,materials are very important because you need them to build your structure. Now you know the basics for engineering. I hope you learned a lot about engineering!!! Page 6 A building being built by wood. Remember,wood is a material!
- 8. Here is an example of lumber and wood. They both have the same sandpaperish,or rough surface on the top,bottom,and the sides. As you can see,the screwdriver has a handle at the top and a shape that matches the screws at the bottom of it so it can fasten the screw. Right in this picture you see a building. That is something you can build. The people who built that used screws and bolts to keep it together and a screwdriver to fasten the screws. Here in this picture are some pieces of wood that have been measured of size and are all the same size. The size is 3 ft. by 1 ft.,or three feet by one foot. Page 7
- 9. Glossary Page 8 A piece of wood or another object that is similar to wood,like lumber Material Drill A tool used for making holes,like a screwdriver Wood The hard substance that is used in building,known as a material Workbench A strong table used by someone who works with tools Tool A device (for example,a hammer)used to build by hand Pen or pencil Both used to mark the length of how long or short something is Measure To measure the length of a material you use to build Building To put together a building. Like a house or a bench.