This is the first unit of the final Junior STEAM course: Urban Planning. In this unit called "Load", we learned about forces and load. We looked at aspects of urban planning, specifically bridges. We looked at different types of bridges and how they handle the forces put on them. Along with this, we learned about Newton's three laws of motion. We also looked at free body diagrams, which show the forces acting on an object. We also learned about equations of motion and various ways to calculate angles and sides of triangles like the Law of Sines and Cosines and Heron's formula. For an FE, we went to downtown Chicago and met with Shehara and Gabriel from Metropolitan Planning Council. We walked along the river and looked at the various bridges. We also went to Millenium Park and learned about how the city turned Millenium Park from a train yard, to a spot millions of tourists visit each year. That's what urban planning is all about. For this action project, we teamed up with our classmates to make a bridge out of nothing but popsicle sticks and Elmer's glue. We had to make a truss bridge that could hold at least 10 pounds without breaking. We had to build, analyze, and draw our bridges. You can view my partners OL and MW blogs by clicking on their initials!
You can watch us test our bridge here!
In conclusion, this was a very interesting project. I never am very fond of partner work, but I was able to work with my partners to somewhat equally spit up the work. The hardest part of this project was actually building the bridge. The glue took a long time to dry, and it was very hard to keep pieces in place. I am most proud of all the calculations my group and I did. It was fun to analyze what we actually built. I hope you enjoyed my project.
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