As part of our topic (Can We Make It? Reuse and Recycle) we designed and made marble games. We had so much fun making them. We started by drawing a plan of how we thought our marble game might look. Mr Powell gave us criteria that our games had to meet (e.g. had to be self contained and sturdy). We also listed the materials we would need for our games. The next part was the best, we took our plans, large cardboard boxes and an assortment or reusable junk from home and started creating. This took 2 sessions. We needed to check our plans and make sure we were working according to what we had designed, if not, then we had to think about why. While we were working, we were constantly checking to see if our design was working. Once we had finished we shared our great marble games with Room 3 who were suitably impressed! Check out our pics, also the games will be in class until next term so come and have a look.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Friday, June 4, 2010
TOPIC
We are now beginning a new topic - Can We Make It? Reuse and Recycle. This is a technology and science based inquiry unit. Our focus will be on how we can reuse and recycle waste to help out the environment as well as the process of designing, making and evaluating products. We have a lot of ideas of what we would like to do: Reusing old white t-shirts to tie dye them and screen print environmental slogans, creating a recycled materials garden and reusing tubes, cans, rolls, bottles to make marble games. We are very excited about it.
Our big questions are: Why is recycling and reusing waste beneficial for the environment and people? and
Why is it important to design and build sustainable products?
Our Key Understandings are:
Materials can be reused in a vairety of ways to make a range of products
People make/create quality products by working through a series of steps in a process
Materials have qualities that make them better suited for certain products than others
There are a variety of other factors and considerations that influence how and why a products is made
Our big questions are: Why is recycling and reusing waste beneficial for the environment and people? and
Why is it important to design and build sustainable products?
Our Key Understandings are:
Materials can be reused in a vairety of ways to make a range of products
People make/create quality products by working through a series of steps in a process
Materials have qualities that make them better suited for certain products than others
There are a variety of other factors and considerations that influence how and why a products is made
My Greatest Feet
The Football/Soccer World cup is starting soon and as part of this we have been given a class set of pedometers to help the All Whites reach their goal and to let them know we are supporting them.
For the past two weeks the children have been using pedometers to count the number of steps they make at school during the day. This data is then added to our total steps website. We can unlock certain parts of the trip and play games on the website as well. Go to www.mygreatesfeat.org. There is a log in section - for this you will need to come and see Mr Powell for the password. The children are loving it, especially with the Cross Country coming up soon (we should get lots of steps done while we are training).
For the past two weeks the children have been using pedometers to count the number of steps they make at school during the day. This data is then added to our total steps website. We can unlock certain parts of the trip and play games on the website as well. Go to www.mygreatesfeat.org. There is a log in section - for this you will need to come and see Mr Powell for the password. The children are loving it, especially with the Cross Country coming up soon (we should get lots of steps done while we are training).
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