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What You Need:
- Dry Spaghetti, Fetuccine, Straws or Bamboo Kabob Skewers
- Small Gumdrops, Small Marshmallows or Square Carmels
Here are some websites and books that will help give you great ideas for designing and building your own bridge. Make a simple design and then try to build it with different materials. Which materials work best? Can you figure out why?
- Try Science: Spaghetti Bridge
- Science Museum Spaghetti Challenge
- eHOW Spaghetti Bridge Instructions
- Building Big: All About Bridges
- How Stuff Works: How Bridges Work
- Bridge Basics
- Five Bridge Types: Arch, Suspension, Beam, Truss, Cable-Stayed
- Bridgehunter: Gallery of Indiana Bridges
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