STEM Bridge Building with P7

Over the last 3 weeks Primary 7 have been learning about Civil Engineering from our STEM ambassador Mrs Lauryn Steele.  This week we had the grand finale which was to build an amazing full size bridge in our PE hall!  The children were split into 2 teams and given important roles within the group as either deck, cable or pin workers.  The team work was fantastic, as well as the learning gained about the different forces of tension and compression, as well as the different types of bridge structures.  This particular bridge was a Cable Stay bridge but the children have made truss, suspension and cantilever bridges too with the K-Nex in class.  They really enjoyed the challenge to build the strongest structure and it was the Arch bridge built by Harvey, Reign, Freya and Bobbi that actually held the most weight of 4kg!  What a fantastic project this has been for us!