Our students tested and evaluated the effects of real science in the city, by testing and evaluating various materials and their impact on stability and structural integrity for tall towers. When we think of our city, we mostly see wood, brick and steel, but what would our cities be like if they were made of marshmallows, plant fibers, or environmentally sustainable materials like corn. We challenged students to really ideate solutions for using new building materials and techniques applied to tall towers, if we ran out of iron or could no longer afford to use wood.

On this day, we used hands-on science and STEM experiments to explore:

The ability of everyday materials to sustain load (Load-bearing capacity)
How to improve stability of tall towers by using strong foundations
Evaluating the impact of different building strategies on their impact to create stable, tall, and sustainable towers.

Inside your child’s Innovation Box, you will find additional building materials for thinking of unique and creative problems for the issues that arise just experiencing Science in the City with our builder’s paradise at Kids Science Labs!

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….Watch below with your child to advance their learning of how the tallest buildings in our cities were designed and built!