Our Think! challenge this week was to create a bridge, at least 9in long, from the following equipment
- 6 pieces of spaghetti
- 2 plastic cups (to be used as the ends of the bridge)
- 2 spoons
- 2 pieces of paper (A4 cut in half - portrait)
- sticky tape
The task was to create the bridge, measure it and test it load bearing abilities using coins. I thought I was being really clever by providing 150 coins but it wasn't enough - so we opted to try a hardback book then ended up using a 1kg bag of flour to test its strength
The girls all managed to come up with their own ways of doing this
DD2 & DD4 used spaghetti to create the base and laid paper over it with the spoon providing weights. I loved how DD4 thought to use the spoon's bowl to hold extra coins :) DD6 again used the spaghetti as a base but wrapped her paper around it and found a great way of supporting it with her spoons.
DD8 again used spaghetti as her base and rested her concertina folded paper on top to give it more strength.
