Structures Project Kits

Structures kits for CAPS Technology, Grades 7 to 9. These cover the design and building side of the Structures content area: trusses, frames, arches and towers that a learner assembles and tests against a load or a brief.

Stock ranges from a full arched truss bridge to a braced lattice tower, each scoped to a specific PAT brief rather than a generic model kit.

The range covers a bridge set, a hydraulic lifting bridge, a cellphone tower and a mine shaft headgear with a working winder, so you can match the kit to the brief your term plan actually sets.

A learner gluing thin wooden strips together to build a truss bridge model

What is the Structures content area in CAPS Technology?

Structures covers how a shape carries a load, trusses, frames, arches and towers, and why some shapes are stronger than others for the same amount of material. A Structures PAT asks a learner to design, build and usually test a structure against a stated load or span.

These kits scope that brief for you: a truss bridge, a lattice tower, or a braced frame, built from the same materials a real structure would use in miniature.

Common uses of Structures kits

Where triangulation earns its keep.

  • A wooden truss bridge model supporting a stack of heavy weights for a load test

    Bridge-Building PATs

    Truss or arch bridges assembled and load tested with weights to see how much the structure carries before it fails.

  • A wooden lattice tower model on a classroom workbench

    Tower and Mast Builds

    Lattice towers and cellphone-mast models teach how a tall, narrow structure stays stable under its own load.

  • Wooden truss bridge models being compared on a workbench

    Comparing Structural Shapes

    A triangulated truss next to a plain rectangular frame makes the case for triangulation without a single word of theory.

  • A wooden model of mine shaft headgear with a winding wheel on a workshop bench

    Mine Shaft Headgear

    A taller, more advanced build combining a braced tower with a working winder mechanism.

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