How to Build a Chocolate Bridge

About this book

What is the best material for bridge building? Concrete and steel? Or, just maybe, could it be melted chocolate and strawberry laces? There’s only one way to find out, and that’s by testing it! Through a series of seven interactive DIY projects experimenting with different everyday materials, award-winning engineer Roma Agrawal demonstrates some key engineering principles and the science behind them. 

Readers can expect to learn about chocolate bridge building, rockets made of meringues, pasta skyscrapers, gummy bear swimming pools, plastics made from milk, concrete trumpets and more. Best of all, through practical experiments, children can experience firsthand how the different properties interact and suit engineering needs in the real world.

With friendly illustrations from Rober Sae-Heng, this book is clear and informative. The practical experiments are simple to follow and use easily attainable everyday materials. This would be a great book for any budding engineers and would also work well as part of a STEM teaching sequence on the properties of materials.