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Bridges

A paper based exercise suitable for 7-13 year old pupils. Pupils make a bridge out of paper into a U” shape and find out how much weight (pennies or model cars) it will take with different depths of the “U” versus the remaining area for the bridge. They graph the results. The project is then extended to bridge the gap between two chairs with paper, sticky tape, etc. costing them “money” – e.g. cheapest to hold a 100gm weight wins. (30 mins)



Burglar Alarm

Primary and

Secondary

An introduction to electrical circuits for Primary School pupils, KS2, using low cost materials. About 30-60 minutes as individuals or small teams.

I used this for a KS3 STEM Club (12-14 year olds) giving them a set of the same materials and challenging them to make the burglar alarm without any guidance whatsoever. Not even the concept of a trip wire, I just explained that it would be dark and burglar would not be able to see the device. However the clothes pegs were already fitted with the drawing pins and leads



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