Let's make a structure!

Hi everyone! J Today, I am going to talk about an activity I did when I was in the first year of the high school. I did this task in Technology instead of Maths but it is completely related with geometry, so I think that this blog is a good opportunity to show it.

The activity consisted in building a structure through rolled paper sheets. The papers had to be tightly rolled so that the structure could be more resistant. In our case, rolls were joined together with silicone, but the activity can be adapted to primary school students and use another type of sticking substance, such us glue stick.

All these structures are composed of geometric figures. As we were divided into little groups to do it, each team had the possibility to decide how they would exactly do it. Thus, some groups made pyramidal structures and others made prisms, among others.

The common objective that each group had to achieve was that their structures bear a certain weight. I remember that most groups got a person from the class to place in the top of the structure. Challenge completed!

I totally recommend doing this activity because it is very appealing for children as they can work cooperatively and see the importance of geometry in real life (structures belong to architecture).

Here I can show you one example of these structures: