Audience
Educators
Grade Levels
Grades K-4, Grades 5-8
Subject
Engineering Design
Type
Lesson Plans / Activities
Students use uncooked spaghetti to build the tallest free-standing structure that will support a marshmallow for at least 15 seconds. The same forces, like gravity and wind, that engineers have taken into consideration when working on NASA Deep Space Network antennas come into play when building a spaghetti structure.
Next Generation Science Standards: MS-ETS1-2, K-2-ETS1-3, 3-5-ETS1-2