Create Buildings Out of Marshmallows and Toothpicks! | National Engineers Week Challenge

Build structures using marshmallows and toothpicks to explore engineering concepts and the process of construction and deconstruction.

Next Generation Science Standards · 2nd Grade
2-PS1-3Make observations to construct an evidence-based account of how an object made of a small set of pieces can be disassembled and made into a new object.
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Create Buildings Out of Marshmallows and Toothpicks! | National Engineers Week Challenge

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Boston Children's Museum

Watch at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrnR2y2Bzl4

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