Monday, November 14, 2011

Bridge Building Activity

Please submit your comments about the bridge building activity you participated in:
1. What was the greatest CHALLENGE?
2. What was the funnest part of the activity?
3. What would you have done differently for the next time?


Sutton Elementary November 2011



15 comments:

  1. This was so fun !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    1.I think the hardest part was getting the truses to stay together and getting them to be strait.

    2.I think the most fun part getting to see how much weight the briges would hold and whatching the briges get destroyed so funny.

    3.I dont think you should change any thing at all.

    It was super fun and I would love to do it again.I wonder how much mighty brige could have heald.
    THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH 8)8)8):)

    VANESSA.B

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  2. The hardest part was when we were done the side of the bridge and we were putting on the top of the bridge because the glue was not drying. The part that was more fun part was watching all the bridge brake when you put the pounds on it. I would have done nothing different. I loved the project and I fond it was a good learning experiences for me.
    Makaila

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  3. I loved bridge building. It was so much fun.
    The only thing I didn't like was the math.
    My greatest challenge was putting the trusses together.
    The funnest part was watching them collapse.
    The only thing you guys could do to improve it is make it 2 million$ instead of 1.
    It was so much fun.

    thank you, Zoe
    p.s
    I loved making the movie old people.

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  4. Honestly the hardest thing to do on my groups bridge was probably making the trusses because the Popsicle sticks would not reach to the sides of the bridge,so then we all had to decide to use the steel cable.

    The most fun thing was putting the color full Popsicle sticks on our bridge, because I found after putting them on that our bridge was awesome looking had more color on it.

    I think that it was pretty cool, but I think next time I should try doing it a little differently so that my trusses would fit to the side of my bridge.

    thank-you for the awesome day.
    Lily-ann

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  5. This was a really awesome activity. It was so much fun to watch the bridges come tumbling down in the end.

    It wasn't easy to get it done in time. Our group, The Bridgette's bridge broke 5 times!
    It was almost time to test the bridges, but just before we were about to give up, we had an idea. We could make it triangular!! So with a few last minute adjustments we were ready in time. To our shock we actually won with 31 pounds! It was spontaneous and cool and I'm so glad we got to do this workshop. Thank you Dale, Chris, and everyone who took part in making this possible!
    -Kathlyn

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  6. the greatest challenge was being careful about the money usage.It turns out we had lots of money left because we miscalculated.

    The most fun part was watching the collapse, but I also loved building them.

    I think the whole thing was really great and you do not have to change a thing.

    Johnathan

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  7. The hardest part was gluing the top and bottom on.
    My favorite part was watching the thing fall.
    I would not have done anything different,
    Thanks for the workshop.

    Sincerely,Tyrel

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  8. I loved bridge building. It was so much fun.
    The only thing I didn't like was the math.
    My greatest challenge was putting the trusses together.
    The funnest part was watching them collapse.
    The only thing you guys could do to improve it is make it 2 million$ instead of 1.
    It was so much fun.

    thank you, Zoe
    p.s
    I loved making the movie old people.

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  9. I LOVED this activity (bridge building!) I found so much fun, and funny to see all our hard work fall down and collapse!

    I love the fact that we were in a group with all our friends!I also loved that we each had our own job. But my FAVEORITE part of all, was watching the bridges break!! :D

    I would have changed the dificulty level of this whole activity because i found that it was really hard to put a bridge together with the amount of time and money we had. But it was a very fun and learning experience for everyone!!
    And im so glad we got to do it!

    Im really excited for whoever else that gets to do this amazing project!
    Thank-You so much for doing this with us!

    -Bethanie

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  10. LET IT DRY! We said that at least five times during the activity. The big challenge was waiting for the glue to dry when we only had fifteen minutes left. Due to impatience during the glue drying process, one of our trusses collapsed twice! Apart from occasional frustration, it was great fun, especially the constructing. It was so fun, we didn't want it to end!
    BY: LEIA

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  11. For me the hardest part was making the bridge, it was so enoying it kept braking . My favorite part was that we only had three minutes left so we decided to make a triangle once he said 30 seconds left, I started to put rope all over the place then kathlyn came and we started putting rope all over the place but at the end we won. I wouldn't change anything it was so much fun. Know i just cant wait till next time. I i would like to say thank you to Dale and Chris for coming and picking are class to be the first class.

    Tori(brigettes)

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  12. The most challenging part of the day was trying to make the top stay. It kept falling off. The most part was watching the bridges break. Building them was fun too. I wouldn't change anything because I really liked it. I'm looking forward to you coming to work with us again.
    Thanks!
    Faith

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  13. The greatest challenge was putting the pieces together.

    The most fun part of the activity was watching all of our hard work get destroyed.

    If we were to redo this project, I think ,I would have thought out my plan better.

    This was a very fun activity and I hope more kids get to try it, like our class did. This was a very cool experience, and I would like to thank you. I think that it is a fun way to learn, and I wish we got to do activities like this more often.

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  14. THE PROJECT WAS SUPER FUN. THE HARDEST PART WAS THE FIRST PART. THE MATH AND ALSO HAVING TO BUY THINGS. BUT AFTER, I GOT THE HANG OF IT. THE MOST FUN PART WAS WHEN WE DID THE EXPERIMENT OF HOW MUCH YOUR BRIDGE COULD HOLD. I LIKED BREAKING THEM. TO CHANGE IT TO MAKE IT FUN WOULD BE...... NOTHING. IT WAS SUPER FUN AND I WOULD LOVE TO DO IT AGAIN. CAN'T WAIT UNTIL NEXT TIME. WE FORGOT TO DO MIGHTY BRIDGE. IT WOULD OF BEEN FUNNY IF MIGHTY BRIDGE DIDN'T HOLD EVEN 10 PONDS.
    THANK YOU!!!!:)
    FROM: KYLIE!!!!!!!!

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  15. I found that the hardest part of this project was the buying money we almost lost all our money with only 25k another reason i found it pretty hard was because when we set the books the books titled and weren't exactly centered which made a disadvantage. The funnest part of this activity was actually building the bridge because i liked assembling it and whatnot. The thing i SHOULD improve is to next time spend our money all in all it was an AWESOME project hope we d it agin.

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