ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Method of support

Okay, kiddo, let me tell you all about the method of support. You know how sometimes things need help or a push to stand or stay up straight, like a tent or a treehouse or even you on your bike? The method of support is a way to help those things stand up straight or be held up, so they don't fall over or collapse.

Imagine you have a stack of blocks that you want to keep from falling down. You can use your hands to hold them up, but that can get tiring, right? So you can use a support or base, like a book or a board, to keep them in place. That base or support is the method of support.

Sometimes, things need more than just one support, like big tall buildings or bridges. They need lots of supports underneath them called pillars, beams, or columns to hold them up. Think of the game Jenga! You don't want the blocks to fall over, so you have to keep adding support as you take some from the bottom.

There are different types of methods of support, depending on the thing you want to hold up. For example, if you want to hold up a bookshelf, you might use brackets or bookends to support the weight of the books.

In summary, the method of support is the way we hold things up so they don't fall over or collapse. It can be a single support, like a block holding up other blocks or multiple supports like pillars holding up a building. We use different types of supports to match the needs of the thing we want to hold up.