Paper Tower

I could not attend the last PPD lecture, so I asked my friends about paper tower session and they told me about that session then I create this blog.

Paper  Tower

In every class our miss Sarasi gives us new things to develop and improve our soft skills. On that day miss Sarasi grouped them 3 and provided each team 12 A4 sheets, a scissor, a sellotape and challenge to built a big paper tower from given papers within 40 minutes. Miss told everyone discuss in English language and don't use Tamil or Sinhala.  Then she observed all group work.
The following would be checked.
1. Longest tower.
2.Firmness tower.
3. Straightness of the tower.

Then every groups quickly started working.


All groups rushed to complete to the tower which straight, firmness and longest.

After finished them paper towers they went to inside of the class room and they discussed about the activity. She said the aim of that activity was to check on how the students can work given a group task.

some of them paper tower photos.




At the end  of that session they learned making decision, leadership, importance of the plan, creativity. The paper tower  challenge is an important exercise for students beginning their study of structural engineering because it teach about load distribution ,kinematics,newton's laws of motion and their important principles. In a simple version of the challenge, students build a stable tower out of a some papers.

The paper tower session is important of develop our personal development skills and it was enjoyable activity..