Introduction
You can be an Architect!
Being an architect is a tough job! It uses art and science to build homes, towers, schools, churches, and bridges, and other structures.
For the past three months we have learned about structures, used various materials, and tested stability. Your final project is to, together with your group, build a structure and test its strength.
Strongest structure wins!
Task
Get together with your group and choose a head architect!
Then your assignment is to choose one of the following tasks and work on them as a team using your expertise to build THE strongest structure!
1 - Build a bridge that is able to span a 30cm gap, and uses trusses in it's design.
2 - Build a table using popsicle sticks or straws and hold the mass on the top.
3 - Build a tower that can stand on it's own, and support the weight on the top of the tower.
Materials you may use:
- popsicle sticks
- cardboard
- straws
- pipe cleaners
- plasticine\playdough
- flexable wire
- spools
- fabric
- newspaper
Process
Your group may find these websites useful in planning and building your projects
www.instructables.com/id/popsicle-stick-bridge/
www.sciencekids.co.nz/engineering
Please also fill out the answers to these question on a separate piece of paper to be handed in with your project
- Draw a plan of your project and label it
- What materials are you using?
- What worked well with your design?
- What could you have changed?
Evaluation
Evaluation
Model
10 5 0
Close attention holds weight, looks sloplooking,
to detail, holds fairly neat, but needs not accurate,
weight, used work, fairly creative incomplete, did
creativity, above not hold weight
expectations
Participation
students worked worked pretty well did not work
well with others, with others, minimal well with others,
and participated participation no participation
fully
Final Worksheet
Fully completed, completed, fairly not completed,
good answers, well presented not well
well presented presented
Conclusion
Congratulations! You are now well on your way to becoming a professional architect!
Maybe someday you will be building skyscrapers and more!
Hope you all had fun building your projects!
