Scaffold (disambiguation)

Scaffold and scaffolding may refer to:

*Instructional scaffolding, the provision of sufficient supports to promote learning when concepts and skills are being first introduced to students
*Scaffolding, in construction, a temporary structure that supports workers and equipment above the ground or floor
*Scaffold, in capital punishment, refers to a structure at a gallows that the condemned stand upon, often with a trap door; it can also refer to the elevated structure on which a condemned person is set to be beheaded
*Scaffold, in chemistry, a structure that is used to hold up or support another material, such as a drug, crystal or protein
*Scaffold, in drug design, functional groups being substituted on a molecular scaffold
*Scaffold, in tissue engineering, an artificial structure capable of supporting three-dimensional tissue formation
*The Scaffold, a United Kingdom musical group
*Scaffold (programming) - a term that comes from the Ruby on Rails framework, which is a facility to construct most of the logic and views needed to do common data access operations, such as CRUD