Use gumdrops and tooth picks, spaghetti and marshmallows, corks and skewers, etc... Try making different shaped triangle based buildings.
Create the newspaper dome once the concepts are well established. Start with a dome the same shape as the original gumdrop dome then try something bigger and more complex.
PBS Dome directions
Detailed step by step directions to build the dome...
PBS Dome Lesson
Lesson ideas for teachable concepts about the dome you will build and links to other architectural teaching ideas, strong shapes, tessalating shapes, videos etc.
Of course, we have one of the world's largest domes right here in souther Indiana... West Baden Springs Hotel built in 1902.... AND it was featured on National Geographics SCIENCE show Big Bigger Biggest. But its not posted anywhere online, except in Russian. Watching without the sound on would be ok, or just surf around and find some videos of it on youtube. Start the video around minute 18.50 for the section on West Baden.
West Baden's Dome is constructed from steel triangles much like ours will be! Studying pictures of the dome and watching the video could give kids ideas of where to go with their dome design.
I like the suggestion to use a wooden skewer to help roll the tubes.
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