construction equipment

Describes the earthmoving machinery and construction equipment at work on a building site while focusing on the special parts of machines which perform specific functions.

Demonstrates how the crane, bulldozer, dump truck, and other construction machines all play a part in building a new park.

Investigates, in text and labelled diagrams and illustrations, the functions of various kinds of building machines and how they work. Includes instructions for related projects and experiments.

Illustrations and easy-to-read text depict a wide variety of trucks, including bulldozers, eighteen-wheelers, garbage trucks, and fire trucks.

When Roley the steamroller sleepwalks out of the yard, Bob the builder rescues him and helps get him back home.

While Wendy is gone for the day, Bob the builder and the others fix up her garden to surprise her.

Briefly describes what goes on at different construction sites, people who work on construction crews, and some of the heavy machines used. Includes a related activity.

Briefly describes what goes on at a construction site and some of the equipment used there.

A father and his young child watch the construction of the new school, from the bulldozing of earth and mixing of the concrete for the foundation to the hanging of the new sign.