People love catapults, trebuchets, ballistae, and other medieval siege machines – you can use that interest to teach students science, math, history, and more.
Originally based on Pitsco’s Trebuchet and Catapult Kits, the second edition of Siege Machines adds activities for the Torsion Ballista and Torsion Catapult Kits plus a culminating challenge utilizing more than one kit. As students build and test the kits, they learn about tension, torsion, gravity, force and motion, elasticity, materials testing, English-to-metric conversion, and more. Includes national standards met by the activities.