1. Children’s Engineering
Bringing
Children’s Engineering
to the Elementary Classrooms
Unit #5
Structures with Focus on Directing Structures
and Design Brief for Building a Playground
Created by Miss Kelley Davis
Page County Public Schools Division-Wide STEM Coach

2. OK Engineers...let’s learn about playgrounds

3. Playgrounds 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.)

4. Let’s read a story about your dream home and playground...

5. Now that we’ve finished reading If I Build a House
You get to design and build your own playground to go in the backyard of your new dream home.
Here are a few examples of playgrounds and the equipment you may see...

6. A bench swing

7. A wheelchair swing

8. A seat swing for young kids

9. A tire swing

10. A seat/tire swing

11. A boingy seat

12. A boingy elephant

13. A boingy dolphin

14. The wheel of death!

15. Hang on tight!!!

16. A merry-go-round

17. Bouncing steps

18. Jungle gym

19. Jungle gym too

20. Spider jungle gym

21. Scarier spider jungle gym

22. Curvy monkey bars

23. Round monkey bars

24. Snail monkey bars

25. Rock wall

26. Rope wall

27. Inside climbing structure

28. See saw

29. See saw with seats

30. Unsafe see saw

31. Circular slide

32. Triple slide

33. Car for kids

34. Fish to climb in

35. Castle playground

36. Dragon playground

37. Young children’s playground

38. Playground for disabled children

39. Daycare playground

40. Small playground

41. Treehouse playground

42. Wooden playground

43. Now it’s your turn!
Design a playground for your yard. Make sure it has at least 3 pieces of playground equipment!