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Race to the Top! Modeling Skyscrapers
| Content Provider | TeachEngineering: STEM curriculum for K-12 |
|---|---|
| Author | Pace, Sara |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Description | Working individually or in pairs, students compete to design, create, test and redesign free-standing, weight-bearing towers using Kapla® wooden blocks. The challenge is to build the tallest tower while meeting the design criteria and minimizing the amount of material used—all within a time limit. Working individually or in pairs, students compete to design, create, test and redesign free-standing, weight-bearing towers using Kapla® wooden blocks. The challenge is to build the tallest tower while meeting the design criteria and minimizing the amount of material used—all within a time limit. Students experiment with different geometric shapes used in structural designs and determine how design choices affect the height and strength of structures, becoming comfortable with the concepts of structural members and modeling. This activity is part of a unit in which multiple activities are brought together for an all-day school/multi-school concluding “engineering field day” competition. |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | Regents of The University of Colorado University of California Davis |
| Subject Keyword | Measurement Physics Problem Solving Structural Engineering Free-standing Tallest Time Limit Competition Skyscraper Building Freestanding Limited Materials Tower Building Civil Engineering Tower-building Competition Weight-bearing Kapla Blocks |
| Content Type | Text |
| Time Required | PT45M |
| Education Level | Class II Class III Class V |
| Pedagogy | Experimental Activity |
| Resource Type | Hands-on |
| Subject | Physics Geometry |
