Design and construct buildings with rooftop gardens. Junior engineers work in groups to build two buildings and then perform experiments to determine whether or not a garden affects the building temperatures. They graph and interpret...

Students create paper bridges. In this geometry and architecture activity, groups use legal paper and paper clips to design a bridge that will hold 100 pennies. Links to mini-lessons exploring stability of different geometric figures and...

High schoolers design and create a chair. Students look at current stool design and come up with a prototype from donated materials. High schoolers then test their chair in various settings.