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P/1M, 1/2Z & 2/3A

Transportation Challenge

 

These "Little People" need to travel somewhere! Students have been challenged to Design, Make and Test a mode of transportation for the Little People. Students can decide if they travel on land, water or in the air.

 

For their transportation to be successful:

 

  • Both people need to fit inside/on the vehicle
  • It needs to move more than 1 metre
  • There needs to be a door for the people to get in and out of
  • It cannot be thrown, the people need to arrive at their destination safely
  • The people need to remain in the vehicle for the whole journey; no falling out!

3L, 4S, 4/5N, 5B, 5/6L & 6E

Chain Reaction Contraption

 

This week students started a new Design Challenge, to build a Chain Reaction Contraption! The challenge is to PERFORM A VERY SIMPLE TASK IN A NOT-SO-SIMPLE WAY. Rube Goldberg was a cartoonist who liked to draw really complicated solutions to very simple problems. For example, to turn the page of a book, you might roll a ball down a ramp that hits a box. Then the box falls over and scares a hamster that starts running on its wheel, that winds up a string that turns the page. In this challenge, students are going to design their own multi-step machine.

 

Before starting to invent; there are two important rules:

 

1) Once you start your machine, it needs to be able to run without any help from you.  Each step must be triggered automatically by the step before it.

 

2) Your machine should have at least two steps. (Bonus points if you can create more steps!)

 

Mrs Braybon

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