Marshmallow

Toothpick House
Bailey, Katy, Makayla, Katelyn
 Scenario

It’s 10 years from now and you are

beginning to design your dream house. You will
be deciding the size of your house, shape of your
house and so much more. You are wanting to
host the christmas party at your new dream
home. You will need to have your house
designed and built in 10 weeks (10 minutes real
life) just in time for the christmas party!
 Steps to building Results
Objectives Methodology Analysis
1 2 3
Define a simple design problem reflecting a need - What methods are you - What went well in
or a want that includes specified criteria for thinking of for your your experiment?
success and constraints on materials, time, or experiment? - What did not go well
cost. - How are you going to in your experiment?
Generate and compare multiple possible build your house with
solutions to a problem based on how well each is
the toothpicks and
likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the
marshmallows?
problem.
Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables
are controlled and failure points are considered to
identify aspects of a model or prototype that can
be improved.
 Plan 1 + 2
Worksheet #1
Your group is going to brainstorm
ideas to build a marshmallow house
on the top part of the worksheet
before you begin building. After you
are done building your group will fill
out what went right and what went
wrong and what you think you could
improve on
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Worksheet #2
As a group you are going to read the
scenario on why you are building
your house. You also have to budget
out how many toothpicks and how
many marshmallows you used to
figure out how much your house
cost.
 Tomorrow
- Make an improved version of the house
you built today
- Build it based of what you filled out in the
worksheet for “What do you need to
change to improve?”
- Make sure you don’t lose your worksheets