Structures and Shapes - Design Your Own Experiment
Design Your Own Experiment
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Watching the way your bridge designs reacted to the weight placed on them may have already given you ideas for improving them. Architecture and design engineering encompasses a wide range of structures and products you see and use every day. Can you think of a way to make something work better or keep people safer? Testing ideas in miniature is a vital tool for trying out new ideas.
Think about combining the ideas and designs used in these projects. Can you think of a way to use the strongest beams in the second project to make a stronger arch? Can you build a bridge that uses both a beam and an arch? If you are doing a project as a group, try holding a competition for bridge designs.
If you want to do an experiment or a project, check the For More Information section and talk with your science teacher or school or community media...
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