Today I learned that making rope was actually simpler than I thought! The process was easy and I thought I would be bad at it because I'm usually not great at crafts. This helped me learn and appreciate the historic craft of rope making. The rope was very strong even though I felt I was not twisting it as tight as I could have. This reminds me of a concept in physics called mechanical advantage (levers, ramps, pulleys, etc.), we could use a simple 'technique' to make something very strong or useful.
The Da Vinci Bridge was interesting because all we needed was a couple of sticks with notches in them to make a bridge that was quite sturdy. It helped me understand how we could use geometry to craft these strong constructions. It also helped me see that this could be done on a bigger scale of logs to make a bridge across a river.
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