Today, in science we learned about force. Force is a pushing or a pulling on an object. Students watched and listened as Doug from Mystery Science explained how engineers build bridges.
Doug presented various types of bridges:
Arch Bridge
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Suspension Bridge
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Truss Bridge
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Students worked in engineering teams to build their own bridge made out of two pieces of paper. Marbles were used to test their strength. The key to this experiment was to make mistakes, so that teams could observe what they needed to fix for their next time. In this manner, students really practiced growth mindset.
First, students tried out different types of bridges and noted their strength
Truss bridges:
Arch Bridges
And the winners were:
First place with a total of 60 marbles!
They created a lot of support for their truss bridge by crumpling up paper as a base
Second place- 18 marbles!
Everyone had a lot of fun learning to build bridges. We had a lot of ties!
What was a challenge you came across in your bridge building and how did you try to overcome it?
What other type of bridges will you try to build next and why?
Hi everyone it is Shea! Building bridges is really hard because when we did it we could only use paper and marbles ( and the marbles used to test it so it was only two peaces of paper) So it was really hard.Table three won they had 60 marbles! Have you ever made a paper bridge out of marbles and two peaces of paper?
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Shea:)
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ReplyDeleteThe bridges were fun to make. We were all engineers yet we were also using growth mindset and teamwork to build our bridges.1st place wow! 60 marbles i'm impressed! We only got
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you do to make it stand up ?
From, Alexa
Hi Alexa,
DeleteI'm one of the winners! It was very exiting and I thought your tables idea was cool! I'm very sorry you didn't win but you have to agree with me that it was fun. Our tables idea was to crumble up paper and put a bridge on top. Next time try putting more stuff under it so it's more stable.
I have to figure out how to try and win the next contest, so I've gotta go.
Your 'winner' Belana
Hi I'm one of the winners in first place Belana,
ReplyDeleteI really liked building the bridges.
I got my idea by smashing a piece of paper
I was angry that the poles were unwrapping so I smashed it with my fist, and that's how I got my idea!
When did you get a clever idea 'accedently' ?
Love Belana
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ReplyDeleteHello,I am Tyler i can not believe they got 60 marbles!We only got 18 and it was a lot of fun! we were only allowed to use two pieces of paper it was crazy!How many marbles did you get when you won it would be great if you told me more than 60.
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Tyler
Hi Tyler, I'm Amit I also had a BLAST! I was in Tyler's mega desk we were second place. That also make's a great connection because we were in table 2 The first even table in the class. We got 18 marbles like you said. Hope you had fun ? we used colorful and hard scissors. we used some of the papers so we can build paper walls. they could hold all the small marbles if they fall out.
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ReplyDeleteThis is Shea's Mom hi class thank you for being so nice to Shea.Hope to meet you soon . Bye
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Adi
Hello, my name is Matthew. Our team enjoyed building our bridge. Belana and Caspian crumbled (verb) one of the papers and we decided to use that for the base. We put the other paper on top of the base and very slowly and steadily (adv.) added 60 marbles. I really enjoyed this activity, thanks Ms. Tulbure for doing this fun (adj) activity!
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Matthew
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love Shea
Hi Class! I really liked the paper bridge Challenge!.
ReplyDeleteI really liked our paper bridge because we were so close to
beating "Team 2" I was in "Team 1". Our bridge was a simple (adj) design because all you needed was 2 pieces of paper! . Can we do it again?. Our bridge was very (adv) easy (adj) to build (verb).
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