NEW unscheduled session WED 3rd JUNE 2009

As we mentioned at the last meeting... and seeing as the bridge building is taking us a little longer than anticipated we are having an extra meeting on the 3rd June. It needs to be a Wednesday due to staff commitments elsewhere.

2nd week images of bridge building- click to enlarge

The PVA glue needed time to set and also we have experienced some difficulty fixing gussets to the individual sides. Be interesting to see our end testing - however will need another session before then.

Week 2 of the bridge building exercise incl PLTS evaluation

The bridge building is progressing well - however it is proving to be a little more time consuming than we thought.

More images of bridge building

Images of the start of bridge building - over 2 weeks

Here are some images of students completing their PLTS sheets and starting to make their bridges.

Personal, learning and thinking skills (PLTS) and bridge building part 1

Making students stop...think and consider - an exercise featuring PLTS thinking. Here students can be seen working collaboratively assessing strengths and weaknesses good and bad points about both themselves and as a group.

STEM bridging the gap using straws

Using straws to make a bridge

Triangulation - bridge building with straws

This turned out to be a fantastic session, would be good for others to try. Using bendy straws we made triangles and fixed them together to make 3 lengths. These were fixed together to make a bridge as shown here. Some worked while others failed.