Bridge Building Challenge

Great activity to use as an introduction or support when teaching structures. I did this as a recap activity at the end of the term and did a similar tower building activity at the start of the term. It uses minimal resources and the kids found it to be heaps of fun.
I did it using the tool well in the tables in the workshop, but if you don’t have these, using stacks of textbooks or similar can work to make the valley they need to build a bridge across (this will need to be changed in the PowerPoint).
Prior knowledge would need to have covered strong geometric shapes in structures (if you want to use the starter activity) but you can just change the starter to suit your scheme of work.