Harrison Junior School's

Way Cool Scientists!

 

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History of the Leaning Tower of Pisa: (make sure to click on the English version)

http://www.cisiau.unipi.it/~pierotti/Torre/cenni_storici-en.html

Objective: To construct a free-standing tower of maximum height.

 Materials:

8.5 x 11 inch piece of copy paper

50 cm of 1 inch wide masking tape

Construction Aids:

pencil/pen

scissors

30 cm ruler

meter stick

Rules:

1)  The paper may not be soaked, painted or otherwise treated to add rigidity (stiffness). No glues or other tapes may be used. 

2)  Your tower must be built from the ground (table) up.

3)  Tape may be used to fasten parts of the tower together.  The tape may not be used to attach the tower to the table or any other object.  Excess (left over) tape may not be used to extend the height of the tower.

4)  A tower will be declared free-standing if it can remain self-supporting for at least 10 seconds.

5)  Height is determined by measuring the perpendicular distance from the base of the tower to its highest point.

6)  Each team will have 35 minutes to complete and have their tower measured and graded.

Danger: Construction Zone

Student Towers:          

 Tower_2.gif (11098 bytes) 104 cm                    Tower_10.GIF (9953 bytes)          128 cm                 Tower_5.gif (15053 bytes)    60 cm

Tower_6.gif (11420 bytes)   129 cm                    Tower_11.GIF (11852 bytes)   103 cm                           Tower_8.gif (12429 bytes)   138 cm   

 Tower_9.gif (10242 bytes)    129 cm                          Tower_1.GIF (16133 bytes)      101 cm                    Tower_3.gif (13235 bytes)      126 cm

                                                                     

Ties to curriculum:

Problem Solving, Making Models, Physical Science (Center of Gravity)

 

Web Site Creator: Royce Heim, 8th Grade Integrated Science Teacher 

Updated:  November 12, 1999