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TowerTest Set

Students use teamwork and creativity to build a series of towers using buckets without touching them!
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How do you build a tower or stack buckets without actually touching them? That's the challenge at hand as students use rubber bands and string to move buckets and other objects during engineering challenges. Students work in color-coded teams to brainstorm how to build a pyramid using 6 buckets, unstack buckets, or move a ball from one bucket to another using materials provided. Success in this tower building activity for students depends on effective communication and problem-solving techniques. In the process, students learn about the benefits of rigid string and stretchy rubber bands and examine the stability of buckets when stacked in various ways.

Set includes 36 buckets (8"H), 6 vinyl balls (3" dia), 40 heavy-duty rubber bands, 1 spool cotton string, and lesson direction with exciting team challenges. Accommodates 12 students. Recommended for Elementary and up.

For an overview of the lesson direction, click here.

CHOKING HAZARD (1). Not for under 3 yrs.

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Next Generation Science Standards*:

  • 3-5-ETS1-1: Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.

  • 3-5-ETS1-2: Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

  • 3-5-ETS1-3: Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.

  • 3-PS2-1: Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.

  • 3-PS2-2: Make observations and/or measurements of an object’s motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion.

  • MS-ETS1-1: Define the criteria and constraints of a design problem with sufficient precision to ensure a successful solution.

  • MS-ETS1-2: Evaluate competing design solutions using a systematic process to determine how well they meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

  •  MS-ETS1-3: Analyze data from tests to determine similarities and differences among several design solutions to identify the best characteristics of each that can be combined into a new solution.

  • MS-ETS1-4: Develop a model to generate data for iterative testing and modification of a proposed object, tool, or process such that an optimal design can be achieved.

  • MS-PS2-2: Plan an investigation to provide evidence that the change in an object’s motion depends on the sum of the forces on the object and the mass of the object.

*The Next Generation Science Standards are a registered trademark of WestEd. Neither WestEd nor the lead states and partners that developed the Next Generation Science Standards were involved in the production of this product, and do not endorse it.