Bridge
the gap.
A teaching collection being developed around structures: the relationship between an idea, a model, a test and the evidence used to improve it.
- Collection
- Bridge design
- Status
- In preparation
- Planned focus
- Structures & design thinking
- Availability
- Not yet published
No bridge activities, worksheets, simulator or teaching-pack files are published on this site yet.
Make the evidence part of the design.
Bridge projects can bring design and engineering thinking into the same conversation. The collection is being planned around how students explain a structure, communicate a proposal, make a model and use testing to reconsider their choices.
More than a model at the finish.
The intended resources will support a record of the thinking as well as the outcome. We’re exploring how workbook pages, teacher guidance and presentation material can help a class follow that story through a structures project.
Physical and digital modelling.
A bridge model or a digital builder can be a way to explore an idea. We’re considering how evidence from modelling tools could connect to a student’s process journal and project work. A bridge builder is not currently available through this launch website.
Any future simulator material will need clear statements about its assumptions and limits. An educational model does not establish the safety of a real structure.
What happens before publication.
The first version needs a reviewed sequence, clear examples, appropriate student tasks and accurate notes for teachers. Age range, required materials, included files and availability will be listed when the collection is ready.