More construction at Girls’ Brigade

We have been continuing our construction theme at Girls’ Brigade with a variety of activities this term.

We had an evening inside Lenzie Union church building looking at arches, columns and trusses. We explored tension and compression, as well as looking at the beautiful stained glass windows. Thanks to our engineering friend Neil for preparing a PowerPoint for us. Afterwards the girls were able to put what they had learned into practice with some Lego arches.

Another activity we have completed this term was constructing a game to take home. The girls each made a marble run from an empty cereal box (with quite a large quantity of Sellotape!) and decorated one side. The angles of the ramps had to be perfected to allow the marble to run properly from top to bottom – a practical demonstration of gravity!

Next we had some fun with balloon-powered Lego cars. The girls had to work out how big to make their cars and how much air to put in their balloons (thrust) to make the cars go further. It was quite difficult to work out the correct combinations and we used Newton’s third law of motion to get our cars to go in the right direction – ‘for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction’.

I’m sure you can guess that the perfect parable to look at for this topic is … ‘The Two Builders’!

On our first evening back after the Easter holidays we have our Display – Tuesday 22nd April at 7pm – where we will celebrate the girls’ achievements. All families, friends and supporters of 1st Lenzie GB are welcome.