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Showing posts with label STEAM. Show all posts
Showing posts with label STEAM. Show all posts

Friday, 12 June 2020

High in the Sky!!

High in the Sky!
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Matariki is coming and we have been learning a lot based around it's history and the cultural way of what it means.
Matariki is the symbol / sign of the Maori New year, and now-a-days people know when it's coming; but back in the day it was much more difficult to know when the arrival of the Matariki cluster would arrive, the way they would spread the word would be through ManuTukutuku!
ManuTukutuku is a maori kite and when they were flown it was easier to communicate to other tribes that Matariki had come.
So my class had begun to make our own ManuTukutuku.
Here is the process of our planning on this slide!


I enjoyed this task and I cannot wait to make more at home!
Have you ever made a ManuTukutuku kite before?
Try it at home!

Tuesday, 26 May 2020

Jumping Jack

Jumping Jack

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Back at school we have started doing a fun task called STEAM.
Steam stands for: 
Science Technology Engineering Art Maths
For this task we did the Egg Drop challenge; first we got buddied up in to pairs by picking out a stick from a cup with numbers. Whoever had the same number as you would be your partner; my buddy was a good friend of mine Blake, others in the class got close friends as buddies too!
Next we had to plan out a parachute to support and sustain the egg from when it drops from the deck and keep it from cracking! Our parachute was just about finished when the tape ran out; and our egg was going to roll off! But we managed to tie it to the bag and we were able to test the drop successfully!
Poor Jack (the egg) was fine, but he had cracked in one spot...
We failed but I had lot's of fun and cannot wait for our next STEAM challenge!
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Next time, I want to work on my collaboration with my team and hopefully our next test will be successful!