Hurricane Structure

1. You want your structure to be as tall as possible! We are having a competition to see who has the tallest successful tower in our class!

2. We have to have a tennis ball on our structure that has to stay on when the Hurricane hits! (This is to mimick people staying safe within a structure during a natural disaster).

3. Last, how will we measure the height? We will measure the height from the ground to the top of the tennis ball! What does that mean? Where you put your tennis ball in your structure is going to really matter if you want the tallest structure in the class! You can't put it on the bottom! 

We also got to start "purchasing" our materials from Ms. Gillis after creating our blueprint and really thinking about what materials we need and why. This way we know the materials aren't unlimited and we need to be resourceful with what we get, and be responsible for what we get since we won't get a replacement if we lose it! 

 We can't wait to get started building next week! 

Keep Exploring,

Ms. Gillis 

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