Sears Hill Bridge

Information about the original bridge

Can you find the scale they used on the original bridge?

What has changed?

Background Information...Read the article and watch the commercial.

Bridge Information

Commercial WHSV After reading the article and watching the commercial you need to summarize what information you learned about Sears Hill Bridge. This should be done on the back of your information sheet about jobs and blueprints.

Your job...

The year is 2012.

The citizens of Staunton have raised the funds needed to

rebuild the Sears Hill Bridge. They want to build the bridge to

be an exact copy of the original, but be safe for pedestrians to

walk across. The Friends of the Sears Hill Bridge asked an

architect to use the original measurements of the bridge to

make a blueprint and model for the new bridge.

You are that architect.

The Job…

Use measurements from

the bridge to create

1. A drawing that will

serve as a blueprint

for a new bridge

that is an exact

replica (copy) of the

bridge.

2. A model of the new

bridge.

Timeline...Day One

Learn about the bridge

Come up with a group plan

Complete group contract

Day Two - Five

Draw on paper pencil or in Google Draw the blueprint for the bridge. Begin construction of model.

Day Six

The company that hired you will be looking at your blueprint, model and table of measurements

Links to documents...

Jobs that require use of blueprints

Project Planning Sheet

Project Team Contract

Project Team Work Plan

Rubric

You can make a copy of any of these documents and save them into your drive if you need to.

Actual Measurements of Sears Hill Bridge

3 ½ ft

8 ft

60 ft

7 ft

12 ft