Marshmallow Towers

We started our unit on measurement in math today. We talked about standard and metric and then did a fun activity. We had a competition to see who could build the tallest tower using 20 marshmallows and 15 toothpicks. Thai and Ian were our winners with a tower that was 3.5 inches high! After our activity we talked about ways that we could have done a better job. The students thought that bigger marshmallows and more toothpicks would have made a big difference. At the end of our measurement unit we will try this activity again with those changes and see how different our results are!