Champions Build Note Card Bridges!

We took last weeks engineering principles and had the students make another note-card tower/ bridge with a new challenge! This time the bridge needed to be one foot high and able to take on weight ( a book/s).

First we watched a short video on the importance of the foundation of bridges, buildings and other structures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqXncSVbT00

Next, we had a VTS exercise using various images of bridges. Our next step was to build! Each team got 20 note-cards, one meter of tape and books (to use as weight).


                                      
Building and engineering....

and the class record...
(watch to see this exciting learning experience)

Students had no problem building the note-card bridges, and the bridges were able to support quite a bit of weight. The class high score of weight was 18 books!

Well done Champions!