Fourth grade students turned into engineers as they were challenged to build an earthquake-proof building for our plastic bears to be protected in. Students went through the engineering design process by first planning and drawing a design. Students then used marshmallows to represent bricks and glue sticks to represent the cement. When building time was over, we tested the structures on a “shake table” to see which would survive. Students then went back to the design process and added toothpicks to their designs to represent support rods. Students rebuilt their structures and retested them. We found out that the support rods reduced the amount of damage to our structures. Check out our pictures and video below!
Building with “bricks and cement”:
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Building with Supports:
Testing With Shake Table:
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Awesome and cool I will do that but with different metrials also Karmen loved it