Paper Bridges Lab

Engineering Design Process

Identify the Problem: Make a bridge that spans 8 inches across a river using only
4 pieces of printer paper, with only one piece of tape.
Rules: Bridges have to stand on their own, they must be on top of river banks (books)
tape can only be used paper to paper, not on the river banks or river. Bridges will be
tested through holding weighted squares.
Explore: Use image search to find various bridge structures. Draw them, and drag
some examples into your google doc in this blank section. (2-3 pictures of bridges)

Design: Draw your models in your Science Log.

__c____ (Mark C when completed)
Create: Create the model that your team agreed on to build.
___c___ (Mark C when completed)
Try it Out:
Number of weighted squares bridge can hold
Trial #1 (October 5th)

29

Make it Better: What design changes have you made? List them here.
We added more support to the paper to make it stronger and keep it sturdy
We taped the things to the paper

Number of weighted squares bridge can hold

Trial #2 (Make it Better, October 18th)

49

Conclusion/Reflection:

When we worked on the paper bridged we all made ideas and put them all together into
one bridge.But if one of the one of the ideas did not work we would have to come up
with a different idea.Sometimes we would fight or pout if are idea did not work but then
we would fix things up and put it all together.