Thursday 19 May 2016

Technology Challenge - Making a raft

Taking the design of a Mokihi as inspiration, the children all designed their own raft. It had to be the size of an A4 piece of paper and needed to be strong enough to support 20 plastic maths teddies while floating in the sand tray. On Friday afternoon, after running the Cross Country in the morning, the room was a hive of activity with everyone creating their rafts from a wide variety of materials.
We had a lot of fun testing our designs this week. Most of the rafts floated. For those that didn't, all of the children were able to suggest modifications to make them more successful.























12 comments:

  1. Victoria20 May 2016 at 18:02

    I love all the photos! All the rafts are excellent, and I bet the teddies had fun going for rides in them.

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  2. Anonymous23 May 2016 at 13:48

    That look fun. Matthew


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  3. Anonymous23 May 2016 at 13:59

    Amazing job I don't think I could do better than you with your rafts.Bonnie

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  4. Anonymous23 May 2016 at 17:35

    Those rafts look amazing. I would love to be a teddy and have a ride on all of them:)
    Charlotte

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  5. Kaelan24 May 2016 at 15:59

    How did you do that!?! I probably could never do as well as you making those rafts. It must have taken ages.

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  6. Unknown25 May 2016 at 18:27

    Love it! Well done Kereru 😊 from Ruth (Ethan's Mum)

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  7. Team Allan-Caney25 May 2016 at 21:13

    Great to see thanks for sharing all those pictures. I can see how much work for all concerned went into that.

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  8. Anonymous30 May 2016 at 17:36

    It was fun making the raft!!!😎😀😃 From Tessa.

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  9. Anonymous31 May 2016 at 10:18

    wow the rafts look great hope the teddies enjoyed their rides in them because i would have if i was one of those very lucky teddies hope the teddies stayed nice and dry you guys

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  10. Anonymous31 May 2016 at 16:50

    You guys made AMAZING rafts . Felicity.M😍

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  11. Mrs Brereton2 June 2016 at 20:43

    What fun you have had. Good job in making rafts. You will have to teach Toetoe how to do it.

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  12. Anonymous12 June 2016 at 19:53

    You're very clever at making rafts! You're like mini engineers!!! Olivia C🔨😄

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