STEM recently had their quarterly STEM challenge. They watched the 1933 version of The Three Little Pigs. The strategies of the three engineers were analyzed as to why the third house was a better design.
- Students had to take 20 3"x 5" cards and a 6" strip of masking tape to design a house that could withstand the wolf (a hand fan).
- They brainstormed individual ideas, recorded what they knew about the task, and each pair came up with a common design.
- They built it and the wolf came.
- If after 10 fans the house was still on the table, not tipped over and enclosed, the pigs lived.
- If the house fell off the cliff (the table), turned over, or lost shingles and siding exposing the interior of the house, the pigs were wolf chow.
Some teams realized that if they used some of the cards to weight the bottom, it made the house more stable and it wasn't moved by the wolf's efforts.
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