Haundenwasser- our artwork

This is work done by students in the class, We would appreciate it if you would click on the comment box and post a comment about the work.

Stable Strucutres

This week we re-looked at our structures. We realised that we needed to include additional support structures.
We viewed a slide show on stable structures and got some ideas of support structures.


We then had another go at building a tower. We still used 30 sticks but this time we used skewers instead of straws. We used blue tac instead of tape.
We included support structures using criss cross shapes, additional prop up legs and triangles in the corners. Our towers were much more stable and we were very proud of ourselves.

Swimming started today

We had a wonderful time at the pool practising our swimming skills. The water was wonderful!

The start to Term 4

Our first week of Term 4 is well on its way and we have had a lot of fun in Science. We are investigating design and construction and we are looking at how to make a structure remain strong and rigid under some sort of load.
In our first lesson we have to build a tower using straws and tape. We can only use 30 straws and 60cm of tape. The tower has to be able to stand on its own, it meeds to have a flat top and it has to be more than 25 cm high.
We have to work in teams of three and each person has a specific job although we all have to be involved in the building of the tower.
We have looked at a number of different bridges and we have talked about solid structures.
These pictures show the beginning of this task.