Today students really dug deep into the benefits and physics of the different types of bridges we are studying. They shared the quiz posters each research group created, read from our Epic Books companion text, and continued work in the Bridge Up! interactive computer program. The afternoon was spent completing and expanding upon some of the experiments in our companion text as student got a feel for some of the materials they will have available for their final bridge competition and experienced firsthand the effects of the physics in play.

Students should continue to work at correctly using the terms compression, tension, and torsion in their discussions as well as correctly identifying the main types of bridges: beam, arch, truss, suspension, cable-stayed, and cantilever.