1. 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
Page County Public Schools Division-Wide STEM Coach

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

3. (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.)

4. Let’s read a story about some pretty famous houses...

5. 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...

6. A beach house

7. A beach house...on stilts

8. A beach house...on stilts

9. An igloo for one

10. An igloo for many

11. Brick houses...strong!

12. A cave house...strong too!

13. A cave house...strong too!

14. A house with siding

15. A crooked house

16. A Hawaiian house

17. A hobbit house

18. A tree house

19. A house in the water

20. A house with a pool

21. A pink house

22. A round house

23. A round roof house

24. A see-through house

25. A tiny house

26. A Thailand house

27. A trailor house

28. A trailor house

29. An underwater house

30. 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!