STEM!

This was a quick challenge STEM activity.  The challenge:  Using 1 yard of tape and a small pile of newspapers, create a tower that will hold a basketball.  What a fun challenge!  With their partner, they discussed ways to make the tower and learned about a very important concept (and vocabulary word) STRUCTURE.  Without it, our towers did not hold up the basketball! 

What worked?  What didn’t work?  What helps make the structure stronger?  What do we know about structures from our last STEM activities?  Failure to create a structure to hold the basketball doesn’t mean we failed…it just means we need to rethink what we do next time.