Design a structure that can withstand the shaking of an earthquake and work as a team of scientists and engineers.
Age of children
- Upper elementary (grades 4-6)
Materials required
- 20 Popsicle© sticks per group
- Hot glue gun (low temperature)
- 2 stick of hot glue per group
- 1 golf ball
- 1 aluminum 8in circle baking pans per group
- Play-Doh© (2 containers per “bedrock group”)
- Grape-nuts© (1 box)
- Oobleck (1 ½ cup of cornstarch + 1 cup of water per “land
- group”)
- Graph paper
- Ruler
- Pens
- Career labels
- Soil cards
- Shake table
- Stop watch
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