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Buildings & Bridges: STEM Structures
https://www.tts-group.co.uk/buildings-bridges-stem-structures/1013829.html Product Code: IT10020Product Actions
Helping to Support Teaching and Learning
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Hands-On Learning
Build nine working models, including houses, pyramids, and various bridge types. The kit provides easy-to-follow instructions and a detailed booklet for guided learning.
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Scientific Principles
The booklet includes explanations of different scientific principles and incorporates experimental activities. This helps children understand the forces applied to structures and how to manage them.
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Curriculum Support
Helps children understand how to strengthen, stiffen, and reinforce complex structures, thereby supporting Design & Technology.
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Material Selection
Children select and use a wide range of materials and components based on their functional properties and aesthetic qualities.
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Technical Knowledge
Supports Key Stage 1 by enabling children to build structures and explore how to make them stronger, stiffer, and more stable.
STEM STRUCTURES: Buildings & Bridges
Explore buildings and bridges, understanding their roles, functions, and importance in our lives.
Overview
Enhance learning with this kit by allowing children to build 9 working models, including a house, pyramid, and various types of bridges such as beam, arch, truss, cable-stayed, and suspension bridges. Children can access building instructions online or in the included booklet, which explains scientific principles and offers hands-on experimental activities.
The kit helps children strengthen, stiffen, and reinforce complex structures, supporting the curriculum by enabling material and component selection based on functional and aesthetic qualities.
The kit lets children explore making structures stronger, stiffer, and more stable, developing foundational skills in engineering and architecture.
Supports the National Curriculum
Design & Technology, Key Stage 2, Technical Knowledge
Apply their understanding of how to strengthen, stiffen and reinforce more complex structures.
Design & Technology, Key Stage 1, Technical Knowledge
Build structures, exploring how they can be made stronger, stiffer and more stable.
Design & Technology, Key Stage 2, Make
Select from and use a wider range of materials and components, including construction materials, textiles and ingredients, according to their functional properties and aesthetic qualities.
Technical Summary
Overview
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Self-Assembly
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Suitable for 3 to 12 years
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