- Take engineering design to the next level with this up-close look at natural disasters. Working to better understand the elements at play in the world around them, Build a Better World Camp has learners collaborate on structural challenges as they model earthquake stability, hurricane winds, system integrity and so much more on their quest to understand how buildings were designed to resist outside forces. Culminating in a final world-building exercise, this camp is a STEAM lava flow at its finest.
- The camp comes with an Instructor Guide, a full printed set of student pages, a digital curriculum download and all the supplies needed for 12 days of activities:
- Azomite: 4 oz
- Bag of lava rock: 1
- Bag of pea gravel: 1
- Bean bags: 5
- Binder clips: 12
- BrickPack (box of 650+ building pieces): 1
- Brick separator: 1
- Cardstock: 1 ream
- Clipboards: 10
- Copy paper: 1 ream
- Cotton balls: 100
- Craft sticks: 100
- Crayons (24 ct): 5
- Cups: 10
- Dish detergent (10 oz): 1
- Downspout extensions: 5
- Duct tape: 5 rolls
- Flour (2 lb): 1
- Glitter (0.1 oz): 6
- Index cards (blank 4” x 6”, 100 ct): 6
- Index cards (colored 4” x 6”, 100 ct): 1
- Masking tape: 5
- Measuring cups: 5
- Mesh bag (for cleaning bricks): 1
- Mini marshmallows (16 oz bag): 1
- Modeling clay: 2 lb
- Paper clips: 100
- Pencils: 36
- Pencil sharpeners: 5
- Ping-pong balls: 20
- Pipe cleaners: 45
- Pitchers: 45
- Plastic bottles: 10
- Plastic containers (6 qt): 9
- Plastic containers (41 qt): 5
- Plastic spoons: 6
- Plastic stirrers: 1000 ct
- Rubberbands: ¼ lb bag
- Rulers: 5
- Scissors – 5” for students: 10
- Scissors – adult size for instructor: 1
- Soda straws: 1000 ct
- Sponges: 10
- Spray bottles: 5
- Storage tub: 1
- String (450 ft ball): 1
- Tennis balls: 5
- Tissue paper: 25 sheets
- Toothpicks: 800
- Vortex connector: 1
- *Print curriculum includes 1 Instructor Guide and a full printed set of student pages.
- **Digital curriculum comes with Instructor Guide only, which includes master copies of all student curriculum pages.
- Lessons:
- The Engineering Design Process
- Strong Shapes
- Natural Disasters
- Earthquakes
- Landslides
- Tsunamis
- Flooding
- Glitter-nado!
- Ashfall Emergency
- Winter Disasters
- Typhoon Towers
- Building a Better World
