Today’s Challenge: Using only provided materials ( 6 straws, 1 piece of paper, a piece of tinfoil, 12 inches of masking tape, 2 paperclips, 2 pieces of string, 1 envelope, and 2 pipe cleaners) create a structure that holds two cups as high as possible and as far apart as possible.
Teamwork Rubric Focus:
My goal for participation today while working in my group is not to take the lead and stay calm if something bad happens.
My Individual Plan <insert photo of sketch and/or type out plan>
My plan is to rip the paper in half and take the pipecleaners and tape them to the bottom of the paper on both sides and make that a structure put 1 of the 2 cups on that then go the same thing with the other half of the paper but with straws then take the envolelope and cut that in half and tape it to the tog of the structure take string take like 4 pieces and tape them across the evolope and put the last cup on top of that and it’s tall and the cups are far apart and hopefully will stay.
Why I think my plan will be successful: think it will work because it will give enough support to hold the cup up off the ground.
My Groups Plan
We chose this plan because it used the least amount of materials so we could use the extras for extra support to add on to our idea.
Possible challenges that may come up during construction are probably not enough tape of run out of time or run out of a spesific material that we need.
Each group member will be responsible for tapeing, cutting, and building.
After the Build
Our design worked well because it held up 1 cup and was very far apart witch were the things we had to acomplish in this chalenge.
This activity was challenging because we had to use our tape supply good so we had enough for the whole challenge.
This activity was comfortable because it was pretty quick to decide on a plan.
I met my participation goal by not taking the lead and sometimes steping back to share the responibilty with my groupmates and it was surprisingly comfortable in my opion.
A strength of my team was we worked pretty well together during the challenge.
An area of growth for my team is comunication for sure and more of shareing the lead.
For our next challenge, my new participation goal for myself is the same goal because it might depend on the people I work with on these challenges.