Breaking Bridges Activity Pack - 10 Pack
- Grades: 3-5 & 6+
- Number of Students: 10-30 (1-3 per pack)
- Number of Lessons: N/A
- Contact Hours: N/A
- Additional Resources:
- Grades 3-5: Testing Guide, Go Guide, Optional Challenge, Classroom Overview, Bridges Engineering Notebook, STEAM Market-It Challenge
- Grades 6+: Testing Guide, Go Guide, Hooke's Law Lab, Hooke's Law Lab Answers, Software Analysis, Physics Analysis, Optional Challenge, Classroom Overview, Bridges Engineering Notebook, STEAM Market-It Challenge
Highlights:
Design, build, test, repeat! Forget popsicle stick, balsa wood, or spaghetti bridges, TeacherGeek bridges allow you to do what was never before possible: redesign and retest your bridge without the hot glue or mess. Using TeacherGeek's proprietary build system, students will have more control over their bridge than ever before; allowing them to learn through experimentation and failure, and evolve designs as their understanding grows. From arch bridges to trusses; with so many design possibilities students are never done making!
Each Breaking Bridges Activity comes with a printed Go-Guide to get kids started and inspire them to make their own unique designs. TeacherGeek also offers free science labs and engineering challenges to deepen students' understanding and challenge them even further, covering topics such as structural shapes, deflection, tension & compression, software analysis, Hooke's Law, elastic & plastic deformation, and member forces on trusses.
Pack contains components to create 10 bridges, and a hook to help test them. In addition to this kit, you need 5 or 7 gallon buckets, weights (e.g. water bottles), and tools (multi-cutter, pliers, screwdriver).
Suggested Add-ons:
Curriculum/Lesson Topics
Grades 3-5: Classroom Overview
Grades 6+: Classroom Overview
Standard Alignments:
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Next Generation Science Standards
NGSS Standards Download
International Technology & Engineering Educators' Association Standards
ITEEA Standards Download
What's Included:
- (180) Connector Strips
- (11) Wire Rolls
- (110) Bridge Screws
- (340) Bridge Nuts
- (2) 1" Screws
- (2) 1 1/2" Screws
- (3) Lock Nuts
- (2) 17 Gage Wire (18")
Additional Information and Resources:
- Grades 3-5:
- Grades 6+:
Special Notes and Considerations:
⚠WARNING:
CHOKING HAZARD - Small parts. Not for children under 3 years.