Engineering Bridges

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School: Tanfield School, Specialist College of Science and Engineering Status: Completed Date Started: 9 Sep 2009 Date Completed: 28 May 2009 Keywords tags: bridges Physics Engineering No of pupils: 11 Number of views: 3350 Related Resources:

Building bridges using custom made kits.

Paper / Straw bridges.

-Investigate bridge design (lunchtime)

-Build Paper Bridges (individual) Competition.

→ Use weights and load balancing.

Winner wins a prize.

Follow up exercises include:

-Use Custom Made Kits in groups to build most interesting and functional bridge.

- Guest speaker from university engineering.