Discovery Science – Step 4 – Amazing Triangles

Today the children constructed cubes, tetrahedrons and their own imaginative 3D shapes using marshmallows and cocktail sticks! They learned that squares distort easily, when put under pressure. When they compared the strength of the square to the triangle, the triangle won hands down! The triangle is the only shape that cannot be deformed without changing the length of one of its sides.

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