5. Spaghetti tower

Building with Pasta - Use the engineering design process to build a 
structure to handle the greatest load. Gain first-hand experience with 
compression and tension forces. Spaghetti 
Anyone?<http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/programs/national/summer/education_resources/engineering_grades7-9/E_spaghetti-anyone.html>
 .pdf <http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/544872main_E3_SpaghettiAnyone_C1.pdf>

Kids blog Spaghetti 
tower<http://kidblog.org/nsbbgc/028e49b6-de75-49dc-9280-3815ab18e625/spaghetti-tower/>
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pictures, description


We did a slight variation on the NASA lesson - just 20 pieces of spaghetti 
and 30 mini marshmallows. The kids had 18 minutes to do their "build"

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