Constructing a Model

40 minutes
  1. Break up into teams
  2. Collect straws and connectors
  3. Build a wireframe structure using a set of straws and connectors.


You may cut or bend your straws. When constructing your forms, think about triangles, hexagons, grids and Archimedean, Platonic and Johnson solids.

Archimedean solids are symmetric, semi-regular convex polyhedrons composed of two or more types of regular polygons meeting at identical vertices. Platonic solid are composed of only one type of polygon that meets at identical vertices, and Johnson solids have regular polygonal faces that do not meet in identical vertices.





Printer Operation