Kia Ora!!
In this week’s engineering, the first thing we did was environmental engineering. The first task in environmental engineering was to carry water across the court in a bucket with a hole. The few rules were that everyone needed to have a turn doing it.
Our group’s strategy was to cover the hole with our thumbs. We also thought about going slow so the water wouldn’t fall, because the faster we go, gravity makes it gather on one side and makes it fall. I think that our group was pretty good at this, but some people had some amazing ideas.
The second thing we did was civil engineering. In civil engineering we had to make ideas on how to make our land safe from drowning and the water rising over, and the only things we could use were clay, tape, sticks, straws, and scissors.
As you can see in the image below, we used blue popsicle sticks to make a border from the water coming in. We also made two bridges by using popsicle sticks and clay to make the bridges. To add more details, we added some drawings of boats, fish, and people.
And then we ended our day with some talking about engineering and watching videos about engineering. Then we left the hall, and that was all we did for this Wednesday’s engineering. If you had to do the bucket challenge, what strategy would you use?
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