Boomilever Challenge Kits
Students learn about weight through trial and error in these boomilever-building kits!
Students go head to head in a competition to build the strongest horizontal weight-bearing structures, called boomilevers! When students’ boomilevers are inevitably tested beyond their limits, students learn from failure to creatively solve problems and hone their designs. This iterative approach to project-based learning allows students to use their own experiences to learn engineering, construction, and design principles. Whoever creates the strongest boomilever wins the engineering contest!
Kit includes materials for 6 boomilevers and accommodates 6 students. Set of 4 includes materials for constructing 24 boomilevers and accommodatesd 24 students.. Both kits include an instruction manual with student data sheets. Electric drill and 1/4" bit required (not included). Recommended for Middle School.
Next Generation Science Standards*:
- MS-ETS1-1: Define a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool.
- MS-ETS1-2: Evaluate competing design solutions based on jointly determined criteria and trade-offs about how well they meet the requirements of a problem.
- MS-ETS1-3: Analyze data from tests of two objects designed to solve the same problem to compare the strengths and weaknesses of how each performs.
- MS-ETS1-4: Develop a model to illustrate the relationships between the structure and function of an object or tool in a design solution.
- HS-ETS1-2: Design and evaluate a solution to a complex real-world problem, considering multiple criteria and constraints.
- HS-ETS1-3: Optimize a solution to a problem by evaluating its trade-offs.
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