This activity allows students to try their hand at designing bridges. This teachers guide accompanies the Nova Super Bridge program. The spaghetti bridge can be a fun and challenging activity that integrates math and science. The bridge will be designed and built by the students out of inexpensive materials such as spaghetti, tape and glue. It will require the students to do a cost analysis of their project and to conceptualize how their completed project will look before having built it.
Lesson plan includes four different activities.
Here are the sample guidelines for a model bridge contest using popsicle sticks. It could be easily adapted to using other materials such as balsa wood, toothpicks, drinking straws, pasta, etc.