Word Match Minds-On Investigations Hands-On Investigations

Minds-on investigations Word match Paper bridges: strong and stable or weak and wobbly? When using identical materials, one design can be weak and another can be strong. Find these vocabulary words from this poster in the word match. Then 1. Place a sheet of paper between two desktops. Lying flat, the paper will fall; it is not read through the Tampa Bay Times very strong or stable. or Orlando Sentinel to find these 2. Now roll the paper and tape it to form a tube. Place the paper between the two words in articles, headliners, ads, tables. By changing the shape, a stronger and more stable structure is created. or comics. 3. Fold the paper into different shapes and lay it across two desktops. Find the Tower Structure strongest and most stable design. Stable Shape Your skeleton: a natural frame structure Size Skeleton Each person has a natural frame structure inside his or her body — a skeleton! Our Flexible Rigid skeleton gives us shape and supports the weight of our muscles. The size of our frame, or skeleton, determines how tall we are. The tallest person who ever lived was Robert Pulley Lever Wadlow (1918-1940), of Alton, Ill. When he was five years old in kindergarten, he was 5 feet Machine Engineer 6 inches. He grew to be 8 feet 11 inches! Mechanical Gear I T G I E S J M T T H I U I W Y A M D K Compare shapes and sizes 1. Lie on the floor on butcher paper and ask a partner to trace the shape of your body. F O E J B L K Y L U R A X P V U W Z A O 2. Cut out the shape. Trace your partner’s shape and cut it out. W M G U R U B E K L V K S H D V N U T U 3. Now draw an 8-foot-11-inch shape for the tallest man who ever lived. M X E X L G P A L M I S S Q U D M M B D 4. Tape the shapes to the wall, along with a tape measure. H W M J L E U B T E O G C Q V A R Q T S 5. Find the difference between the tallest person in the class and the tallest man who ever lived. L A V Z H O B W E S T E N I H C A M A O Y C F T K R N N P M V O J S S W K L D R T C L I F U G J T T F G N W L H E A A S N H K D N I T B L C U U Z A R M M R D P Hands-on Y G Y B N K R O P T B J C P W P J G F U investigations M A O E A D E E R J S I R C O S L S D W Discover structures F Q E Y Q E O E H R N S T R U C T U R E Look around at the man-made structures L R Y E P I W I X A D O F A Z C L Y E T in LEGOLAND®. Name some man-made structures. Natural structures grow or are E B F L D O Z L H C I S S H A P E G T J built by other living things. Look at the natural structures. Name some natural X Z W L T C G C A S V L F C C S V V M P structures that animals build. Shell I J I U S S E W X W R U A T W Q E F C B structures are built so that people or things can go into them. Name some shell B J H P I M M S O K Y I Z B J C R R Q T structures. Frame structures are built to support a load or to carry weight or to span a L Z H Z R A E G H N J A G R A H I P U U gap so you can cross the gap. Name some frame structures. Name the frame structure that is inside your body. E T E Y C X Q Z K Z K N H I G F R K K J S Z T L I D O J U A H C U R D T C G J S Tips for building Stable structures When we build structures, we want them to be stable, or strong. Here are two hints from Newspaper activity LEGOLAND master model builders to help build stable structures: Learning new words 1. Overlap the bricks as you build the levels taller. This is also called interlocking. When you study new things, you often come up against some tough 2. Build a wide base, and do not make the top too skinny. vocabulary words! Most vocabulary words are learned from context clues or good old-fashioned dictionary work. While you read this poster, be sure Build a tall tower With a partner, use the DUPLO® bricks to build the tallest tower you can! Remember the to highlight or circle words you don’t know. Try to figure out the words’ model builders’ tips and build a stable tower. meanings by looking for clues in the sentences around them. Write down Water Park open seasonally. Please check LEGOLAND.com for days of operation. Due to the family nature of the LEGOLAND Water Park, all guests are required to wear proper swimwear. Swimwear that is revealing or otherwise inappropriate for this environment is prohibited and may result in the guests removal from the LEGOLAND Water Park. Swim wear with exposed zippers, buckles, rivets or metal ornamentation are not permitted. your best guess, and then look the words up in a dictionary. As a group Earthquake simulation LEGO, the LEGO logo, the Brick and Knob configurations, the Minifigure and LEGOLAND are trademarks of the LEGO Group. ©2012 The LEGO Group. LEGOLAND FLORIDA IS A PART OF THE MERLIN ENTERTAINMENTS GROUP. activity, make a list of the words students identified and see which ones Shake your structure like an earthquake! Look at each tower as it is placed on the table. Are stumped the class. Look for these new words in the Tampa Bay Times or the bricks overlapping? Is the base wide? Will the tower stand up to the shaking — or will it Orlando Sentinel. crash?! The Tampa Bay Times ® Newspaper in Education (NIE) program is a cooperative LEGOLAND minifigure facts effort between schools and the Times to promote The LEGO minifigure represents the world’s largest the use of newspapers in print and electronic form as population of people! More than 4 billion minifigures Minifigure trading: educational resources. Since have been produced in the last 30 years. This is more Did you know you can trade the mid-1970s, NIE has provided schools with class sets of the newspaper, plus our award-winning original than 12 times the population of the United States! your minifigure with our MCs? curriculum, at no cost to teachers or schools. The body of a minifigure is the same height as MC stands for Model Citizen, With ever-shrinking school budgets, the newspaper and In the our curriculum supplements have become invaluable tools three LEGO bricks stacked on top of one another, and which is what we call the to teachers. In the Tampa Bay area each year, more than the head is one LEGO brick high, making it one and 5 million newspapers and electronic licenses are provided beginning … employees at to teachers and students free of charge thanks to our one-half inches tall. generous individual, corporate and foundation sponsors. Once upon a time, there was a carpenter named LEGOLAND®. Ole Kirk Kristiansen who had a wooden toy shop. The average minifigure – with no hair or NIE provides supplemental materials and educator Kristiansen’s favorite saying was “Only the best is workshops free of charge. Our teaching materials cover a accessories – weighs 1/10 of an ounce. variety of subjects and are consistent with Florida’s Next good enough.” As a carpenter, Kristiansen was very Generation Sunshine State Standards. The Times and our good at making wooden toys. His first products It would take 1 billion minifigures, lined up in a NIE curriculum are rich educational resources, offering were hand-painted wooden cars, animals and pull- single row to wrap around the Earth’s circumference teachers an up-to-the-minute, living text and source for toys. Kristiansen called his business LEGO®, which countless projects in virtually every content area. one time. Today there are enough minifigures to wrap comes from the Danish phrase leg godt, which ® For more information about NIE, visit tampabay.com/ means “play well.” In Latin, it means “I put together,” around the Earth at least four times. nie. Follow us on Twitter at Twitter.com/TBTimesNIE , or “I assemble.” Kristiansen’s son, Godtfred Kirk LEGOLAND Florida and STEM and check out the NIE Blogging Zone at tampabay.com/ Kristiansen, began working alongside his father. In The LEGO Company sells 3.9 minifigures per blogs/niezone. To learn how to sponsor a classroom or LEGOLAND Florida offers eight educational programs Dr.

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