Do you ever wonder how a building gets built? It's a lot like putting a huge puzzle together!

Here is the story of how one very unusual building was built. The photographs follow the construction from the excavation (digging a hole for the foundation) to the finishing touches. You will get to see the construction workers and their machines doing their dirty, dangerous jobs. Just wait until you see the what this building looks like when it is all finished!

Internet Extensions:

Author Cheryl Willis Hudson
Photographer Richard Sobol's Website
Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Stata Center
Constructing the MIT Stata Center
Construction Activities for Kids
A Career in Construction
Building and Construction
Sesame Street Kids Mimicking Construction

Literature Connections:

Alphabet Under Construction by Denise Fleming
with Kids Wings Unit in Tickles, Tricks, and Treasure

Dream Carver by Diana Cohn
with Kids Wings Unit available in Tickles, Tricks, and Treasure

Quinito's Neighborhood by Ina Cumpiano
with a Kids Wings Unit available in Springboards

Everybody Works by Shelley Rotner with a Kids Wings Unit available in Springboards

Old MacDonald Had a Woodshop by Lisa Schulman with a Kids Wings Unit available in Book Bridges

A 6-page Unit for Construction Zone is part of a collection of 40 units in Stepstone Stories
The Unit Contains:
Crossword Puzzle
Readers’ Theater
Multiple Choice Comprehension
Cover Clues
Logic Puzzle
Discussion Cards