The Children's Museum of Phoenix has an exhibit called "In The Pipeline." As a part of their exhibit they sent over pipes, connectors, and banners for our students to imagine, engineer, and construct whatever they chose to create. Our class had a chance today to go into our Science Lab and do just this. We broke into four teams and the kids discussed what they wanted to build, how to build it, and then they got busy constructing. It was fun watching them work together, figure out why connectors were not working, discuss how to fix it and then solve their problems. At the end each team had some very cool designs. Check out the pictures below.
The first team originally wanted to build a pyramid, but quickly learned there wasn't any connectors that would let them make 4 triangular sides that would meet at a point at the top.
They opted for a hotel with a television set instead.
This team built a house, you can't see it but there are stools inside for them to sit on.
The third team built a castle house.
The final team went big. A really tall shower! LOL!
Everyone pitched in for clean up time.
We even had amazing banner folders!
What a blast! Lots of engineering brains for sure!
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