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Spaghetti Bridge

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Students work together to build their own spaghetti bridge. They test the bridge to see how much weight it can hold before breaking. They discover how engineers use this type of information to design bridges.

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bridges, civil engineering

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Grade
6th - 8th
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Social Studies & History
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