엔지니어처럼 생각하세요! 마시멜로와 이쑤시개로 만드는 STEM 챌린지

Hello and welcome! I am happy to see your interest in my class. This class will be a class designed to spark creativity as well as engineering skills. We will be using marshmallows and toothpicks to build structures. This class will culminate in a challenge for students to build the biggest tower by utilizing their engineering skills that they acquire throughout the lesson. 

We will begin the course with introductions and icebreakers. We will then move onto building simple structures as a group. The structures will progressively become more advanced but we will work on these collaboratively in a step-by-step method. This will allow students to understand which shapes and structures are the most durable for their independent build.

After practice, students will be given approximately 10 minutes to build a structure independently using the same materials (marshmallows and toothpicks). After the structures are completed, students will measure their build. We will then compare results. 
We will discuss the results together and analyze why some towers were more successful than others. We will also discuss how we might be able to improve our structures in the future. Students are welcome/encouraged to use the discussion and advice to try another build after class. This is an extension and is not required for homework. 

There is not prior knowledge needed for the class, other than the ability to measure the tower, which I am also able to help assist in doing. 

Please let me know if you have any questions or class requests. Thank you!