Towers! Towers! Towers!

How to Build a Tower

Materials needed :
- Glue (any type that works fro you)
- Balsa wood sticks or Popsicle sticks
- Gloves
- Paper to put underneath you tower while building
- Yard measuring stick to keep track on your width and height
- bucket of sand
- big book (biology, English)
- empty bucket
- measuring cup
- loading block with chain
- test board with a 20cm by 20cm square cut out

Objective
to build a 50 cm tower that is 50cm height and with base of 20cm by 20cm that can hold a full bucket of sand

Rules:
1. Your tower must be at least 50cm high
2. At 15cm your tower must be able to go in a 8cmX8cm
3. at the very top of your tower it must be 5cmX5cm so that it can hold the loading block
4. the base of the loading block has to be from 16cmX16cm to 20cmXby 20cm

Step 1 Create a Design

This step is to help guide you through your process of building your tower. Your design must contain measurements (how tall are you going to make it/ how will your tower go in at 8 cm/ what is it going to look / what tactics are you using , triangle , squares) your design must answer these questions.

Comments

[lemonie]

Make one.
Don't lift stuff, e. g. http://www.garrettsbridges.com/photos/balsa-tower/

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