Friday 27 July 2018

Catapults for TinkerLab!

Today for TinkerLab our challenge was to make catapults!

Koka Ngaire and Koka Rachel gave us:
- 15mins
- 8 iceblock sticks
- 5 rubber bands
- one bamboo spoon



Our challenge was to create a catapult capable of getting a pompom over the 3 metre line in buddies!

We created first... lots of talking, collaborating, thinking, trying out, thinking, making changes and perseverance.
We then came back together to share.  Some were more successful than others!

This was our learning.  We also looked at some other successful catapults and discussed how we needed to create a 'bounce' or resistance to create force and distance.

We then had another create time.  We all made changes/improvements and then came back together to share again.  This time a lot of the catapults made it over the 2m mark and Giacomo, Jamai, Lani and Taj got their's over the 3 metre mark!

It was a lot of fun!








18 comments:

  1. Hi my name is Neko and I want to say great work with those things you created. I have used a spoon as a catapult at home to play a game. We used the spoon to get over each others to knock there army set. if you want to come to my blog hears the link https://tsnekoh.blogspot.com/

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  2. Hi my name is Tyla and I want to say marvelous work you done and those look like a very good sling shot and if you want to see my blog here's the sight https://tstylab.blogspot.com/

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  3. Hi my name is Jonas and i am a student at Tautoro school, well i would like to say what a awesome way to interact and have fun with your class, maybe next time you could make your videos a little bit longer, but other then that what a good post. Blog you later

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  4. Hi my name is Strickland. I go to Kawakawa primary. I like your cross country because you get to run by a beach.

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  5. Greatings my name is Tewaipuke I come from Kawakawa primary school and I very like your winning shot, you children were making so cool winning shots, you fullas are very helpful at making your winning shot. I have never made a winning shot. That looks so pretty cool to make. Bye children, I hope you have a good time at school.

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  7. Hello,KokaNgaire. my name is Tukotahi and i am 10 years old this is awesome cybersmart and loved the way you and your classRoom did this. I can from tamaki primary school

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    1. here is my blog link chttps://tpsmilanm.blogspot.com/

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  11. Hello Moana learning hub, I like how you have include some videos of catapults. What materials did you use?
    tpsfbracey.blogspot.com

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  12. Hi moana learning hub. I really love the idea you had and to just see them learning and having fun. this is what I want Tamaki primary to do.

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  14. Hi moana learning hub my name is Nitika and i like you that you made your catapults and it was very cool to watch the winner shot .
    and have did you make it .

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  15. Hi moana learning my name is Nitika and i like how you made your catapults it was very cool to watch the winning shot. How did you make the catapults.

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  16. Hey Moana Learning Hub , I like how you used ice block sticks to make your catapults. That is really fun and I wish I could do that in my class.

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