Tips for Building a Tall Tower
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How She Starts Building Now Veronica gets to build cool stuff for Legoland. When she starts a project, she doesn’t know what she will make. She thinks about color first. Her favorite LEGO colors are lavender and sand green. Next, she looks at the shapes of her bricks Then she decides what they should become. She Builds Fast Veronica puts pieces together fast. If they don’t work, she tries again. That is how she built the soccer players in the picture above. For big models, like space stations, she plans on LEGO brick paper first. One of the best parts of her job is LEGO Movie theme song to her. All want to become better LEGO builders. Advice for Building Veronica tells them: “Think about the most important part. Get that right, and the rest will follow.” Thanks, Veronica! teaching kids. Some come in and sing The
Build a wide base. A wide base will help keep your tower from tipping over.
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Build the main part of your tower. Interlock the bricks—put two bricks together. Lock them together with a brick on top. Then keep stacking them.
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Teacher: Help children talk about Veronica’s work with LEGO bricks. 1. Veronica studied architecture at college. How did that most likely help her win the LEGO contest?
2. How does Veronica solve a problem when something doesn’t work? 3. What can you learn from reading “Tips for Building a Tall Tower”? 4. What questions would you like to ask Veronica?
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