Book Week

2010 Theme: Across the Story Bridge

(Banner by Kylie Dunstan creator of Book Week 2010 artwork)

 

August 22nd-29th 2010

 

Book Week Ideas:

For a great collection of ideas visit:

*A special Thank You to  NATLA members who have generously shared resources with our teacher librarian community!

Ideas from NATLA members:
Comparing 2010 Books Worksheet
Ruth's Thinking  Keys Worksheet: Clancy and Millie
Building Big Website -explore large structures and what it takes to build them
Draw, sketch bridge and add name of PRC finishers to bridge structure
IWB Book Week Graph by Jae Rolt
IWB Activities by Carolyn Foster: Fox and Fine Feathers | Hero of Little Street | Isabella's Garden | Mr Chicken Goes to Paris | Pearl Verses the World |Schumann the Shoeman |
Kindergarten Book Week Workbook pdf 1 2 .doc 1 2 by Bernadette Bennett
Da Font useful fonts to download for displays
The Terrible Plop ebook (requires flash)
Fearless Activities from Sarah Davis' website
Alison Partridge/Lyn Pritchard : Book Week Contract  Notable Book Covers Literary Search and Find Chester and Gil


 

Ideas from OZTL_NET

Lorene Furmage's Across the Story Bridge Edublog
Anni Tokatlian's Book Week webpage
Use a bridge as the starting point for a story - if this bridge could tell a story, what would it be?
Use old books to make a story bridge.
Use the bridge as an idea of connection - with a country, story, person or idea.
Global Connections through books eg. Twilight, Harry Potter.
Collect old cereal boxes to paint and transform into books for a story bridge
World’s weirdest and most beautiful bridges, longest & highest…

World’s 20 most Notable Bridges
http://quazen.com/arts/architecture/the-world%e2%80%99s-20-most-notable-bridges-
architectural-and-engineering-feats/

15 World’s Most Notable Bridges
http://www.bukisa.com/articles/25771_15-worlds-most-notable-bridges-architectural-
and-engineering-feats

18 Stunning Bridges From Around The World
http://www.interestings.net/article.php\?id=14

Weird and wonderful world of bridges
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/07/worlds-most-interesting-bridges.html
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/01/worlds-most-interesting-bridges-part-2.html
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2009/05/worlds-most-interesting-bridges-part-3.html
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/12/astounding-japanese-highways-bridges.html

Weirdest Bridges in the world
http://amazingphotos4all.blogspot.com/2009/07/most-weirdest-bridges-in-world.html


Bridge puzzles

http://www.jigzone.com/gallery/Bridges\?z=10

Virtual Bridge Building Challenges

Go to http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/bridge/challenge/index.html
Test your engineering skills and try to match the right bridge to the right
location. But, before you start, learn something about the engineering technology
of bridge building at these sites:
1. Bridges homepage http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/bridge/index.html
2. Bridge Basics link http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/bridge/basics.html
3. Types of bridges http://www32.brinkster.com/redjeep/bridges/types.htm
These will tell what engineering techniques are used and how spans have to be
constructed for distances and forces. There are also links to examples of world
famous bridges.
and this site has more spectacular bridge links
http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2010/03/05/the-best-images-of-spectacular-bridges-
how-students-can-make-their-own/

Then take up a challenge: Choose one of these “virtual” bridge building exercises
OR try a real bridge building exercise with one of the challenges in the library.
Larry Ferlazzo’s site has a pdf guide to a can, corrugated cardboard & spagetti
stick bridge.

1. Build a bridge for Craggy Rock - you can choose from 4 bridge builds.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/bridge/challenge/index.html
2. Build a virtual toothpick bridge at
http://www.worsleyschool.net/science/files/bridge/virtual/virtualbridge.html
3. Build New Bay Bridge in the Brisge to Classroom site (San Francisco) where
Designing and building a bridge to withstand earthquakes is no easy challenge.
http://eduweb.com/portfolio/bridgetoclassroom/
4. Build a Bridge http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bridge/build.html

Proverbs

Children are the bridge to heaven ~ Persian Proverb
Let every man praise the bridge that carries him over ~ English Proverb
A fable is a bridge that leads to truth. Arab Proverb
If man be a river, then woman will be a bridge. Arab Proverb
Those who do not forgive break the bridge on which they have to pass. African
proverb
It is better to build bridges than walls. Swahili proverb
If you destroy a bridge, be sure you can swim. Swahili proverb
When two elephants meet on a narrow bridge, they get nowhere until one of them
backs down or lies down. South African proverbs
If you would get ahead, be a bridge. Welsh proverb
He that would be a leader must be a bridge. Welsh proverb
Don't cross a bridge until you come to it. & Don't burn your bridges before
they're crossed. Seem to be worldwide proverbs

Other quotes
The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn. David
Russell (Scottish classical Guitarist. b.1942)
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. Jim Rohn (American
Speaker and Author)

“Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.”
Life is a bridge over the sea of changes. Do not build a house on it. Sri Sathya
Sai Baba

But which is the stone that supports the bridge? Kublai Khan

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes
none away.
Robert Henri

I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through
reality.
Max Beckmann

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
Phyllis Theroux

"Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite
their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse,
encouraging them to create bridges of their own." -- Nikos Kazantzakis

Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge
and grow your wings on the way down. Danielle Steel

This bridge will only take you halfway there, to those mysterious lands you long to
see. Through gypsy camps and swirling Arab fair, and moonlit woods where unicorns
run free. So come and walk awhile with me and share the twisting trails and
wonderous worlds I’ve known. But this bridge will only take you halfway there. The
last few steps you have to take alone. Shel Silverstein

Novels & Plays

A view from the bridge Arthur Miller
The Bridge is a novel by Scottish author Iain Banks
The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's
The Affinity Bridge …George Manns book is a smattering of Sherlock Holmes,
Necromancer, and HG Wells all rolled into one enormously fun Steampunk novel.
Bridge to Terabithia a 1977 novel by Katherine Paterson
Burning Bridge by John Flanagan
London Bridges by James Patterson
Broken Bridge by Philip Pullman
A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan The Battle of Arnhem, one of the most dramatic
battles of World War II, was as daring as it was ill-fated. It cost the Allies
nearly twice as many casualties as D-Day. This is the whole compelling story, told
through the vast cast of characters involved.
A Bridge To The Stars by Henning Mankell

Legends

The bridge to Asgard in Norse mythology is a Rainbow, and don't forget The Three
Billy Goats Gruff...
any more ideas?????

Poems

Bridge poems http://www.brantacan.co.uk/bridgeupdates.htm#Poems

http://www.endex.com/gf/buildings/bbridge/bbridgepoetry.htm


 

 

 

 

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