Noodles

For a twist on the traditional pasta tower challenge, gather up your pasta and make a noodle tower using noodles, paperclips and 12 inches of tape and NOTHING else -- no glue allowed.

Post It Towers

Can you build a tower from a pad of post-it notes? How high? Good luck.

Tall Tower Solutions

Congratulations Luke and Noah on your tall tower of 23 inches! You should be proud!



Sebastian also did an amazing job! Hope you are also proud!





Bodhi also did a marvelous job with this challenge -- you should be proud!!!




The challenge is pretty hard if the toys you pick are soft! Check out the super work of Boo and Zee here. Hope you are proud of your successful Think!ing strategies!

Tall Towers

Tell your student to select 10 toys. Do not tell why --

Once the toys are collected, tell the student to create the tallest tower possible using the 10 toys -- send in a pic, include your measurements. To make the challenge harder, build the tower on the clothes dryer and then turn it on and see if the tower still stands.

oops -- this posted early for some reason -- oh well. Consider it a bonus challenge!

Straw Tower Solutions

No surprise -- we had a great entry this week from Journey into Unschooling. Congrats on a job well done!

Week Forty -Eight -- Straw towers

You'll need -- a bag of straws, 6 inches of string, 6 paperclips, and 6 inches of tape. The challenge is to build the tallest and strongest tower you can. Choose three medium sized hardback books. Build the tower as tall and you can but make sure that it supports the 3 books. Snap a picture. Send it in. Congratulate yourself on some thinking well done.

Week One -- Tessa's submission

Way to go Tessa!

Week One - Towers

Put the following materials on a table: 5 pennies, 2 rulers, 3 8.5 x 11 sheets of paper, and two pieces of masking tape (3 inches long each). Tell students they have 5 minutes to create a tall tower.

When time is up, measure the tower and snap a picture before it collapses! Be sure to email your picture and measurements by Saturday at noon.

If you want to learn a little more about skyscrapers, go here and here.

Update: Here is our attempt. First, we ripped the tape into smaller pieces. We rolled one piece of paper (lengthwise). We taped two rulers to the inside of the roll on opposite sides.



We rolled the second piece of paper and taped it to the first one.



We taped two pennies on the top sides of the second piece. We cut the third piece into thirds (each 8.5 inches tall). We rolled them and taped them together (now we were almost out of tape). We taped the three rolls to the bottom two. The tower stood for about 1 second before the top toppled. It was 46 inches before it flopped. We got this picture: