Building For The Big One
Design a structure that can withstand the shaking of an earthquake and work as a team of scientists and engineers.
Objectives:
- To design a structure that can withstand the shaking of an earthquake
- To understand how soil type affects a buildings ability to withstand an earthquake
Materials required
- 20 Popsicle© sticks per group
- Hot glue gun (low temperature)
- 2 sticks of hot glue per group
- 1 golf ball
- 1 aluminum 8in circle baking pans per group
- Play-Doh© (2 containers per “bedrock group”)
- Grape-nuts© (1 box)
- Oobleck (1 ½ cup of cornstarch + 1 cup of water per “land group”)
- Graph paper
- Ruler
- Pens
- Career labels
- Soil cards
- Shake table
- Stopwatch