Basketball On Tower

Today in inquiry everyone is blogging about what they have been doing for the last 3 weeks. We had 4 options we could pick to try make a bridge, a tower, a parachute or a vehicle. I picked tower because it seemed the easiest until I tried building it of course. I was not able to work on it much because I hurt my toe and I was not at school for about 4 days so I didn't have much time. We got to use only paper and masking tape. It was hard because I din't have much time and I didn't have as much materials as I thought but it was easy planning and designing a draft. I didn't see if it would work have to tried it before. Have you ever tried anything like this at your school

Straw Rafts

In Inquiry we are learning about the design process. The design process is where you plan, design and test a product or theory. Sometimes when you test it it doesn't work and you have to start again to see how you would make it better. Mrs McG gave us a challenge. We had to plan, design and build a straw raft to float with 40g of weight on it. We could only use 20 straws and a meter of masking tape. Our raft failed 2 times because it turns out for a straw raft to float you need to make the raft less then the water. We did some research about how rafts float and found that the straws have to be perfectly in line and not all wonky. we found it hard because we needed more straws.