Teambuilding in Room 17

This week we started an Engineering for Good unit in Science where the first activity tasked us with building a Marshmallow Tower using only 20 sticks of raw spaghetti, one yard of masking tape, one yard of string and a single marshmallow to go on top! The students worked together with their table group members to attempt to build to tallest tower! We learned a number of different things through this activity... we learned that more helping hands makes the task easier, and also that if a few members of the group aren't engaged in the process it makes for a challenging task. Overall, we all had a great time! See the pictures below!

Working hard to create a tower!

First Place at 11" tall!!!

Making adjustments to the tower.

Second Place at 10" tall!

Trying to see what will work!