March 21, 2011
There are a couple of build a wall lesson plans on LEGO Education sites.
We thought we would try out making modular walls to make multistory buildings.
The very old LEGO houses were made with modular walls of 11 studs.
Using 6 2 by 4 blocks along the bottom
and covering cracks by using a couple of 2 by 2 bricks on every other level makes a very sturdy wall.
However ones that long do not fit well on a 15 inch by 15 inch plate.
Another page said 4 inch wide by 3 inch high wall.
4 inch wide is between 13 and 14 studs long.
3 inches is really 8 rows high.
Using walls 13 studs wide and 8 blocks high makes walls
that can fit on a standard 16 stud by 16 stud plate that is 5 inches by 5 inches.
Rectangle Square
However
there is a row of studs left over on 2 sides.
This class did the 13 studs wide and 8 blocks high walls.
How many blocks were used? ( A good question and not as easy to counts
as first thought.)
With the rules 2 - 4 above, how many blocks in your wall?
Then some pretty nice buildings were made.
This class did the 24 studs wide and 8 blocks high walls
.
How many blocks were used? ( A good question and not as easy to counts
as first thought.)
This class did the 22 studs wide and 8 blocks high walls.
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for lesson plan
How many blocks were used?
With five 2x4 blocks and one 2x2 block wide walls and the rules 2 -
4 above, how many blocks in your wall?
Plates are 15 inches wide - 24 studs.
Since the walls are 2 studs wide the walls need to be only 22 studs
long.
Then some pretty nice buildings were made.
Walls
March 22, 2011
Learning from the ideas from the previous class,
this class is going to make buildings with plates as roof.
So the doors and windows have to be the other way around.
It is not as easy as right side up.
