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Improving Your Tower

Silhouette of a tower on an Earthquake Platform, illustrating the challenge for students to design and build a tall structure that can withstand simulated earthquakes.
A tower on the Earthquake Platform

Take 15 minutes and improve your tower to be as tall and strong as possible.

Recording Your Findings

Example engineering notebook with grid line pages with lines for sketching and notetaking.
Engineering Notebook

Now that you have made improvements to your design and built your new tower, the Recorder should take a moment to add the following to the engineering notebook:

  • Today's date
  • A one or two line description of what you built
  • Two or three things you like about your design
  • Two or three things that you don't like about your design
  • Two or three things you would improve on your design if you had more time
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