Project Description
EiE (Engineering is Elementary) finished the week with the Engineering Design Process. Ask, Imagine, Plan, Create and Improve are the five steps. In the small groups of three, the students sketched plans for their bridges, and from a predertermined set of building materials, set about to build a bridge fitting certain criteria (read about the process.)
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- Bridge Success – it passes the weight test!
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- Bridge Failure – will not hold the weight
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- Time out for an engineering conference
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- Popsicle sicks, wiki stix, binder clips are all part of the structure
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- Another team builds their bridge
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- Bridge construction begins
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- The teachers review the students work
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- The bridge engineering/building criteria
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- Teacher Erin explains the project to the class
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- The bridge project is explained