The 3 Little Pigs…was the brick house really the strongest?

Throughout Term 2, the students in Pre-Primary have been using their senses to explore, identify and compare the properties of a variety of materials around the school grounds. To further build upon these experiences, students read the story of The 3 Little Pigs and explored the materials that each little pig had chosen to build its house…a house of straw, a house of sticks and a house of bricks. The students were given the challenge to find out if the brick house was really the strongest out of the three houses.

They used their science skills to come up with a plan to find the materials needed to build the three houses. Together they collected straw from the Garden of Weedin, sticks from the Nature Play Area and bricks from the Tinker Space. In groups they explored and described the properties of each of the materials and designed and built the 3 Little Pig’s houses.

With a visit from the Big Bad Wolf (also known as Gardener Jack) and a mighty strong huff and puff, the houses were tested…and just like the students had predicted the house of bricks was definitely the strongest because ‘bricks are heavy, strong and rectangular which means you can stack them and there are no gaps in between them for the wind to blow them down.’

Mrs Phillips

Science Teacher