Year 8 STEM

Year 8 STEM

Building a tower for my basketball!

Earlier in Term 1 the year 8 students were given an exciting task. They had to ‘Research, plan, design and construct a tower made out of newspaper and tape that can hold a basketball for 10 s’- Mrs Selby

Concepts researched were:

• Shape, stability, and strength of a building material
• Compression (a pressing force that squeezes a material together)
• Tension (a stretching force that pulls on a material)