Spiders are master designers, creators and builders and their webs are amazing examples of clever, intricate engineering used to help spiders survive and catch their prey. Quite often, we simply brush spider’s webs away without thinking about the design work by these fascinating little creatures. In this video Vince compares spider’s webs to the bridges that we see all around us and sets an engineering challenge to build a bridge out of different materials you can find in your home or school grounds:
After watching this video, can you investigate some example of human engineering? Can you use anything you find in your research to help you build your own bridge? Could you build a bridge using materials in your own school grounds or garden? Have a look at this document to explore some examples of bridges in Scotland and get some inspiration for your own bridge challenge:
For educators, this document outlines the challenge relating to Technologies experiences and outcomes and highlights potentially methods of assessing:
