{"id":2010,"date":"2013-06-20T00:00:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/?p=2010"},"modified":"2020-04-03T12:02:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T01:02:50","slug":"how-can-we-build-a-sturdy-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/how-can-we-build-a-sturdy-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"How can we build a sturdy wall?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2011\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2011\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Screen-Shot-2013-06-19-at-11.58.59-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2011 \" src=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Screen-Shot-2013-06-19-at-11.58.59-PM-300x243.png\" alt=\"An example sturdy wall\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Screen-Shot-2013-06-19-at-11.58.59-PM-300x243.png 300w, http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Screen-Shot-2013-06-19-at-11.58.59-PM.png 401w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2011\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An example sturdy wall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Students will investigate the properties of sturdy structures by constructing a LEGO wall. The wall must be about 6 bricks high and withstand the \u201cFlick Test\u201d. The Flick Test involves flicking the top of the wall to see if it fails or tips over.<\/p>\n<p>Lesson features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Predicting structurally sound building practices.<\/li>\n<li>Class discussion of different building methods.<\/li>\n<li>Building and testing a sturdy wall.<\/li>\n<li>Recording design and test results in Engineering Journal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Determine the best design for a sturdy structure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Resources<\/h2>\n<p><em>The lesson plan attached to this post was designed as part of a series of introductory WeDo lessons but is relevant to all building systems (i.e. RCX, NXT, EV3, \u2026).<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Lesson1_SturdyWall.pdf\">Sturdy Wall<\/a>\u00a0lesson plan\u00a0\u2013 WeDo (PDF)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Sturdy-Wall-Lesson-Plan.pdf\">Sturdy Wall lesson plan<\/a> &#8211; alternate version (PDF)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Sturdy-Wall-Journal.pdf\">Sturdy Wall Journal<\/a> (PDF)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students will investigate the properties of sturdy structures by constructing a LEGO wall. The wall must be about 6 bricks high and withstand the \u201cFlick Test\u201d. The Flick Test involves flicking the top of the wall to see if it fails or tips over. Lesson features: Predicting structurally sound building practices. Class discussion of different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":2011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,7],"tags":[164,244,100,211,243],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legoeng.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}