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Building and Engineering Building and Engineering Children are born scientists—they love to explore and discover. There are many activities that you can enjoy doing at home with your little scientist. QUESTIONS • What materials are used to construct a house, a building or a bridge? • What tools or machines are used to construct a house, building or bridge? TRY THIS AT HOME Make A House Out Of Paper You usually need strong materials, such as bricks, to build a strong house. However, you can build a house out of paper (which isn’t very strong) if you use strong 3. Put a piece of paper on top as the roof and shapes. Strong shapes in building include round tubes and it will hold in place. Now place a block on triangles. Follow the directions below and build a house top of the roof to be the chimney. The roof using paper and strong shapes. will collapse under the weight of the block. 4. You can make the roof stronger by folding You Will Need it into strong triangle shapes. Fold the • Five pieces of A4 paper paper in a concertina shape, back and • Sticky tape forth like a fan. There will be many little triangle shapes in the paper now and this • A small toy will make it stronger. Put the new folded • Wooden or Lego blocks roof onto the tubes and place the chimney block on top of the roof. It will now hold because the roof is made of strong WHAT TO DO triangle shapes. Find a small toy that you would like to build a house for. 5. Now your toys can live safely inside the 1. Use four sheets of paper to make the walls. The paper strong paper house. won’t stand up by itself; it will keep falling down. 2. To make the paper stronger and able to stand up by itself fold them into strong round tubes. Fold the four DID YOU KNOW? pieces of paper (one at a time) in half (long ways) • Triangles, tubes, arches and domes are then roll up into a tube (about the size of a toilet roll). also strong shapes to use when building. Sticky tape it together. Now use the four tubes as the • The tallest building in Canberra is four corners of the house. Telstra Tower at 195 metres tall. Open 9 am to 5 pm every day. Closed Christmas Day. Admission fees apply. King Edward Terrace, Canberra t 02 6270 2800 www.questacon.edu.au TRY THESE OTHER ACTIVITIES READ BOOKS • Tell (or read) the story of The Three Little Have fun finding more books at your local library, Pigs and investigate the strength of different book store or online. building materials. Build houses for your children’s toys using straw (drinking straws), • Building a House by Byron Barton wood (paddle pop sticks) and bricks (blocks) • A Year at a Construction Site by Nicholas Harris and investigate which house is stronger and • A Day in the Life of a Builder by Linda Hayward discuss why. • The top of an egg is a dome shape. Domes are curved like arches and are very strong. GO ON AN EXCURSION When you eat eggs keep the large half of the Go on a building and engineering excursion! egg shells. Notice it is a dome shape. Put Here are some suggestions in the Canberra region. tape around the broken edge and place at least four egg shell halves on the table. • Go for a walk in your local area and notice how Test how strong they are by placing big books many buildings have different shapes like circles, on top. See how many books you can place rectangles and squares. Notice how many buildings on top before they break. You can even put have strong shapes like triangles, tubes (columns), a bunch of egg shell halves together to arches and domes. make egg shell shoes that will hold your • Look for construction sites in your local area. child’s weight! Look at the trucks moving dirt and cranes lifting • Use blocks and build the tallest tower you can things. Look at the foundations of the building until it all falls down. and the walls being built. • Visit the tallest building in Canberra, the Telstra Tower on Black Mountain (195 metres tall). Go up and have SING SONGS a look out of the observatory and see a wonderful Sing this building song with your child. Don’t forget view of Canberra. the actions with your arms as walls, floor and roof. There’s a house INVESTIGATE WEBSITES There’s a house with a wall, all,with a w There are many websites for children about building with a wall. and engineering. We suggest you start with: There’s a house with a floor, with a floor, with a floor. • Play games and do building activities with There’s a house with a roof, with a roof, Bob the Builder at www.bobthebuilder.com with a roof. vestigate • In different styles of bridges at Ooooh, it all falls down! www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/build-bridge-p4.html There’s no house any more, any more. There’s no house any more! www.questacon.edu.au .
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