Free Standing Tower With One Piece Of Paper
What other paper engineering challenges have you tried.
Free standing tower with one piece of paper. The paper tower challenge is an important exercise for students beginning their study of structural engineering because it teaches about load distribution kinematics newton s laws of motion and other important principles. On the other hand if you could find a way to secure the base a free standing arch would also go pretty tall. Involves designing and constructing a free standing tower from a single sheet of 8 1 2 by 11 paper. Involves creative design analysis of structural concepts construction skills with paper and concepts of.
Participants will be given ten minutes to construct the tallest free s. This team building activity is simple to execute and it is a great way to get your participants to think strategically. Build the highest free standing structure you can build with just one sheet of 8 1 2 x 11 sheet of paper. This is part of the 5 days of engineering challenges series which is part of the ihomeschool network homeschool.
Actually if you managed it right i bet you could make the braces out of tape and devote all of the paper to the tower. The paper tower number of members per team two number of towers per team one skills and physical science concepts developed.