Science: Structure Competition

My grade 5 students having fun building structures

The class was split into groups and they had 15 minutes to "plan" on paper how they would build the tallest free standing structure. After the planning stage, they had only 5 minutes work together to build the structure. During the second competition, students had to plan how to build the strongest structure. We loaded books on each structure, one at a time to see which group had the strongest structure. The students had a blast during the planning, building and testing stages!!