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Hands building a structure with uncooked spaghetti and a marshmallow

Audience

Educators

Grade Levels

Grades K-4, Grades 5-8

Subject

Engineering Design

Type

Lesson Plans / Activities

Students use uncooked spaghetti to build the tallest free-standing structure that will support a marshmallow for at least 15 seconds. The same forces, like gravity and wind, that engineers have taken into consideration when working on NASA Deep Space Network antennas come into play when building a spaghetti structure.

Next Generation Science Standards: MS-ETS1-2, K-2-ETS1-3, 3-5-ETS1-2

Spaghetti Anyone? Building With Pasta