Building Bridges
A printable price list to use as part of your bridge building activities!
This project (which can be carried out in small groups) involves building a bridge. Although this may sound simple, the only materials that the children are allowed to use are paper and paper clips.
A PDF file containing a useful poster and some more detailed information is available below.
1) Each group should think of a company name for themselves.
2) Each group is given a budget of £100, which they can use to build the bridge. Paper costs £10 per A4 sheet and paper clips cost £3 each! The children should therefore think about what materials they will need before they buy them (No Refunds can be given!).
4) At the end of the activity, compare each groups bridges in terms of strength, fitness for purpose etc.
5) There are a number of variations which can be imposed to make the activity harder for the children:
Reduce the budget.
6) Before the lesson, you may wish to teach the children about the strength of different shapes (e.g. triangles are strong, while squares are weak), or you might want to use this activity as a starting-point for discussion about the topic.
A printable price list to use as part of your bridge building activities!
Comments
su
17th June 2016
excellent
Donna
10th July 2016
Have used this loads of times, its a great team building exercise and so much fun. Used as Supply and as an activity for induction class, not to mention as a DT session on Bridges