Children’s Engineering Bringing Children’s Engineering to the Elementary Classrooms Unit #5 Structures with Focus on Sheltering Structures and Design Brief for Little Pigs House Created by Miss Kelley Davis (kdavis@pagecounty.k12.va.us) Page County Public Schools Division-Wide STEM Coach
OK Engineers...let’s learn about houses
(That means it won’t fall down.) Houses are a type of Structure A structure is something built out of a number of parts that work together AND must resist the force of gravity. (That means it won’t fall down.)
Let’s read a story about some pretty famous houses...
Now that we’ve finished reading A Home for a Pig You get to design and build your own home for a pig. But there’s a problem, the wolf plans to try and blow your house down!!! So make sure it is strong. Here are a few examples of houses...
A beach house
A beach house...on stilts
A beach house...on stilts
An igloo for one
An igloo for many
Brick houses...strong!
A cave house...strong too!
A cave house...strong too!
A house with siding
A crooked house
A Hawaiian house
A hobbit house
A tree house
A house in the water
A house with a pool
A pink house
A round house
A round roof house
A see-through house
A tiny house
A Thailand house
A trailor house
A trailor house
An underwater house
Now it’s your turn! Make a house that is strong enough to stand against the wolfs blows. Make sure your house looks like a real home!