What Can You Build?

Developing flexible thinking and creative problem solving is an essential part of STEM learning at Franklin. Students used individual STEM bins to explore and create.

Next they discussed how engineers work. Engineers design and build with a goal in mind and a number of constraints.- materials, budget costs, and time.

Students traded bins and were given a new challenge. The materials available proved to be a challenge for some! 

During different challenges, students were tasked with building the tallest structure, the strongest structure, and a structure that would keep its shape when carried to a new location. 

The difficulty of each challenge changed depending on the bin they were using at the time!