Testing Paper Bridges
by Dexter Nebitsi
Students will construct paper bridges with pennies acting as weight to see the proportionality between the amount of pennies it takes to collapse the bridge. Students graph their results to see a linear relationship.
Lesson Plan Link/URL
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1hRf6Xr4pFuqT7raxIGzHPFNZBT4PQmNr/edit?u…Related Content
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