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Wednesday
Oct102012

Bridge Lesson: Draw Your World

Pin It! DateWednesday, October 10, 2012 —— By AuthorKim Stitzer
Architectural structures in your community
are excellent subjects for children to draw. Drawing Lesson: The Tacoma Narrows Bridge
I live near the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington State. In 2007, a new bridge was built alongside it. We watched the new bridge go up and learned about bridge construction, which of course, led to a drawing lesson! This lesson is NOT in the Draw Write Now books—the children and I were simply drawing our world!

The perspective in this drawing lesson is from the road deck. The Tacoma Narrows Bridge may not be familiar to you, but the lesson can easily be adapted to another suspension bridge simply by substituting the tower design.

BASIC BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION
  • The basic parts of a suspension bridge: towers, main cables, anchorage, suspender cables, road deck.
  • Artistic styles influence engineers whild designing a bridge.
OUR BRIDGE HISTORY
MATERIALS

PREPARE THE PAPER
Paper clip or tape the tracing paper onto the tower template. (The template is removed in Step 6 and the white paper is taped to the back of the tracing paper.)

Draw a Suspension Bridge, Tacoma Narrows

Draw a Suspension Bridge, Tacoma NarrowsStepanie, age 10 Draw a Suspension Bridge, Tacoma NarrowsRachel, age 5

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