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Learning Lessons with: Jenn, Kyndi , and Kelsey.

Welcome to the fun world of Science..

Structures are designed to a certain particular to achieve their purpose. Safety is an important element in the design and use of structures. Engineers use several methods to ensure structural safety so that the design serves its purpose. Faulty constuction is the second most common cause of structural faliure. Construction errors can result from the use of poor quality materials, poor installation from either sloppiness or lack of expertise, or a combination of these. For example, homeowners are aware of how easily shingles and blown off a roof in windy conditions. This is a bigger problem is the shingles were poorly installed by not secuting them correctly with the right type of nail. Using the wrong nail for the job can mean the difference betweeb a roof that lasts for 20 years and one that fails on the first windy day. Faulty construction can have tragic consuquences. Some of the structures can't hold the proper weight, and the structure plumbets to the ground. The causes of this could most likley be that the structure was not made correctly, by using the wrong beams. **Beams:** a peice of wood/metal/etc, that is used for construction purposes. Structure failure's can turn out in going to the hospital if you get to close. A structure needs to be built correctly, by using the correct beams, and making sure it can hold alot of weight, because if it can't, well, one word, Timber! A structure needs to have the correct time and thought put into it. A structure failiure is also very dangerous.

Enough about failures and nonfailures, now we talk about the thing that helps us all, the reason we have working body parts and and an apperance, is because of form and function. Form and function are two things we need to live. Form is the apperance, if there was no form, how would we be able to know what is what, because everything could just be a giant blob. Form helps everything have a purpose. Form helps us accually have a mouth, eyes, nose, ears, hands, feet, etc. Form is the shape of a structure, or object. It is the mode in which helps things act, and exists. Now onto Function. Did you know a bats wing, a whales flipper, and a humans hand all are similar? Because they all evolved the same! We have similar bones, and the way they evolved, so did our hands. Its hard to belive, considering all take on difforont forms, but, these did only avaperate to difforont things.
 * Form:** The shape of a structure or object. Form is the mode in which helps things act.
 * Function:** or subroutine, a portion of code within a larger program, performs a specific task.