Bridge Building Fun!
For the last two weeks we have been studying engineering and on November 24 we brought our bridges to life! We brought them to life by by buying supplies with classroom money. Mrs. Wherritt challenged us to make the safest and strongest bridge but at the lowest cost. Once we got all the supplies, we started to actually bring them to life by building and testing how sturdy and strong they were by taking a plastic car and seeing how many times the car would go over the bridge (stability). We also used weights to see how many strong our bridges were (strength). Then at the end Mrs. Wherritt made a chart on PowerPoint presentation to compare whose bridge was the strongest. We had team names so she averaged the bridge’s cost, strength, and stability to get our total score.
~Kylee
Wherritt’s At Bridges
Our class recently started talking about building bridges. We used wood as our abutments and paper as our bridges. We tested the bridge with weights. At the back table with Mrs. Wherritt we used her fan as wind to test her bridge. There are four different types of bridges: (1) a suspension, (2) an arch, (3) a beam, (4) and a deep beam bridge. We had A.L. Brown students come to help us with building our bridges and we tested them by rolling a car across the bridges. I learned a lot about engineering bridges!
~Jayla
"The Strongest Bridge"
"Wherritt's Wonderful Bridge"
"The Golden Gate Bridge"
"The Cool Bridge"
"The Frozen Bridge"
