Inventions

Inventions update!

Room 3 is now well into the second week of inventing their wet lunchtime activity, things are ticking along nicely and most groups are now into the modification and testing stages.

The problem:

During spring there are many wet lunchtimes and in Room 3 there is not enough activities that can be played by a group inside.

The brief:

Design a wet lunchtime activity that can be played by a group. It needs to be portable and be easily unpacked and packed away.

The groups:

Group One is inventing two race tracks where cars have to speed past obstacles to reach the finish line first.

Group Two is inventing an Angry Birds inspired game where you must blast your Angry Bird out of a volcano to hit stars, and collect points, avoiding the dangerous dragons!

Group Three is inventing the 'Tigers and Monkeys' board game where tigers and monkeys have to race through the jungle to get away from the evil poachers!

Group Four is inventing the 'Army Training' game where players practice their aim shooting stars for points.

Group Five is inventing a dance mat where dancers can practice their moves to the latest hits!

Tech Challenge: Baby Bear's Chair

Over the last week Room 3 have been spending their afternoons completing a tech challenge! The instructions seemed simple....

But this task was anything but simple! We needed to plan, design, build, test and evaluate, rebuild, test and evaluate and then share.

It was a big job but we all create a unique and creative chair that fit the needs of Baby Bear!

Tech Challenge: Baby Bear's Birthday Chair on PhotoPeach

Procedure writing: How to make a Technics Car

Room 3 has had a great time working on our inventions inquiry over the last two weeks! So far we have learnt about who can be inventor, what amazing inventions have been created over time and have started thinking about what processes an inventor goes through.

For writing this week we have been designing and building Technics car and then writing a procedure on how to build the car for a buddy. We have really had to think carefully about how much detail we add to our procedure and have had to make so many changes so that our instructions were simple, but still really clear!

Check out the photos of us making our car and writing our procedures.