Building Bridges at CAHTS in Ms. Reyes' STEAM Class

Ms. Reyes' STEAM art class has been building bridges as part of their most recent STEAM project.  To begin this project: a combination of art, engineering and physics, students researched bridges.  A website provide by Dina Scacchetti, WPU Science PIR provided students with an excellent beginning on the basics of bridges as well as new vocabulary words and concepts.

Above: "Suspension"

 Above: "Cantilever"

 Above: "Tension Test on the Joints"

Above: "Arch Bridge"

Next students began planning their bridges using pencil and paper.  From these plans, they constructed their bridges using wood scraps and glue guns.  They referred to more bridge building website for guidance such as this one:  LINK . 
In addition Ms. Reyes discussed the architects of several well known bridges such as the Brooklyn Bridge and the George Washington Bridge.

Students thoroughly immersed themselves into this project and their results prove it!  A wide variety of interesting bridges emerged and students had much to say about this process.