The Impossible Bridge Level 21-22

The Impossible Bridge follows a group of students as they construct different types of bridges, encountering challenges that push them to think creatively and logically. Featuring multiple genres including diaries, reports, and instructional texts, this story introduces technical vocabulary and supports comprehension through close-up photography and text features. Readers explore various bridge types and learn how problem-solving is a key skill in engineering and design. With compound words, contractions, and possessive apostrophes embedded in the text, this book provides rich opportunities for literacy development alongside science and technology learning.

Educational Benefits:

• Promotes understanding of STEM concepts through hands-on problem solving
• Supports genre awareness across instructional and narrative forms
• Strengthens vocabulary and punctuation understanding
• Encourages collaborative thinking and design inquiry

Classroom Ideas:

• Conduct a STEM challenge: build a bridge using only paper
• Compare different bridge types through model-building
• Write a diary entry from a student engineer's point of view
• Use specialised vocabulary to label bridge diagrams

Safety & Information:

• Suitable for ages: 6-8 years
• Book dimensions: 20.5cm x 19.5cm; 24 pages
• No hazardous materials; safe for STEM projects
• Encourages integration of literacy and science