composite

Brick design being tested by student featuring a pencil wedged in a Styrofoam board balancing a glass jar on a homemade brick

Composite Materials: Designing Mud Bricks

In this long activity, learners find out what composite materials are, why they are used in many industries, and then design and create their own composite mud bricks.

a collection of shells of different types

Why are Seashells so Strong?

In this activity, learners explore seashells and various structural models to discover that seashells are a composite material made of both inorganic and organic materials.