We've been investigating polygons. Polygons are two-dimensional shapes like a triangle, square, hexagon, and octagon. Our challenge was to find out which polygon would be the strongest, after building them all with strips of paper for the sides and brads for the vertices.
Building the polygons was a challenge in itself! We figured out that the triangle was the strongest shape because it didn't really wobble around and it didn't lose its shape.
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| Luke and Tyler's hexagon |
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| Ja'Naizha is making her triangle |
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| Mekhi is figuring out how to make the heptagon - the 7-sided polygon! |
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| Kaitlyn and Nikki are using teamwork to make different shapes! |
Building the polygons was kind of hard but it helped us learn a lot about building and being architects. Check back soon to see how we used what we learned about strong polygons to design and build three-dimensional structures like real architects.
