Building a Tower | NPT3
8/4/2022 | 1m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
Building a tower with your kids can help them with iteracy and engineering skills.
Building a skinny tower out of buttons and Play-Doh can be a fun way for your children to develop fine motor skills and use critical thinking. Through trial and error and discussion, they will learn how building a wider base leads to a stronger tower. Challenge your kids to see how tall they can make their towers, then measure and record write information about their constructions.
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Learning to Read is a local public television program presented by WNPT
Funding for LEARNING TO READ is provided by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation and the Hays Foundation.
Building a Tower | NPT3
8/4/2022 | 1m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
Building a skinny tower out of buttons and Play-Doh can be a fun way for your children to develop fine motor skills and use critical thinking. Through trial and error and discussion, they will learn how building a wider base leads to a stronger tower. Challenge your kids to see how tall they can make their towers, then measure and record write information about their constructions.
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- [Adult] All right, we're gonna build a tower.
Literacy and engineering are great partners and learning how to build a strong tower is a fun example of how the two concepts work together.
We begin by building a tower as tall as we can without it falling over.
Oh.
- Oh.
- Fell down.
- To learn the basics of what makes a strong tower, this Cat In the Hat video explains why termites are expert builders.
- [Termite] A big wide base.
That's the secret of a good tower.
- We asked Roux what she learned, helping her make the connection that a wider base means a stronger tower.
Then we start building again.
That's a good wide base.
This exercise not only challenges Roux's fine motor skills but it also allows her to use her critical thinking skills, and it's something we can do together.
We challenge Roux to see how tall she can make her tower and then we measure it and write it down.
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