Spaghetti Bridge Lesson Plan. Students should construct their bridge. Students should be given ample time to design a bridge and draw blueprints.
Procedure show students the available building materials including the metal strip road chain and weights that will be used. Half of the contents of a spaghetti box per group of 2 3 students elmer s glue dispenser 1 per group day 1. This spaghetti bridges lesson plan is suitable for 8th grade.
Students thread a piece of spaghetti through the holes in the cup.
Give about 1 2 pound of spaghetti to each group. Learners explore the field of civil engineering by making a bridge using spaghetti as their primary building material. Once groups have recorded their ideas and some possible weaknesses they can come to you to get their spaghetti and begin building their bridges. How to build a spaghetti bridge.