Use this free printable to engage students in a fun engineering challenge. Students will learn how earth materials like sand, wood, leaves, grass, and metal support more weight than the materials themselves. Students will design a structure of paper and tape that will support the mass of five textbooks, and then complete a series of data tables and conclusion questions.

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