How are skyscrapers built? What does it take to make a structurally sound building? How can one work within a budget to complete a building project? These guiding questions will be investigated and answered within a hands-on instructional activity. Working collaboratively with a small group of peers, elementary learners research, plan, measure, and evaluate how to build a skyscraper. Given a budget of $25 a member of the team will purchase materials and the rest of the team will record the purchases. Working together, the group will then build the skyscraper. To sum everything up, the class will compare and contrast their skyscrapers to real-life skyscrapers and reflect on their work. The duration of the instructional activity most likely will be more than the one hour that is indicated on the lesson plan.