In the past few weeks in blast off we have been making Rube goldberg machines. Rube goldberg machines are complex machines doing simple tasks, these tasks could be: putting a ball in a bucket, put a bottle in a bin, ring a bell, switch off a light or some other tasks. Our task was to get a ball in a cup, we used: jenga, tennis ball, glue stick, car, tracks, marble, roll of tape, domino lid and dominos. Together we made this machine:
This week in blast off we built catapults. We had to follow some instructions on how you build them. We made three models, One that is small, one with a triangle base and one with a square base. We had to indentify the energys that catapults hold, when it is launching it has elastic and potencial energy, when it is in the air it has kinetic energy.
Here are some slides on our recorded data and the instructions so you can build them too:
Today in wellbeing class the yr 7s and yr 8s went to the gym and we had Sam the policeman come and talk to us about cyber safety. Here are three things we learnt about being safe online.
1. Don't click on any links that are too good to be true, this result in you losing money from your bank account or having hackers access your account.
2. Don't post personal information, people can access this and then send messages to you and make you think that it's someone different.
3. If you want to post pictures of other people, ask for their permission first
Are there any other ways to be cybersafe?
Last Trimester we had to make a inquiry on our fashion decade. We used slides and we had to explain things from our decade like what fashions, colours, prints etc were popular, some information on what magor things occurred like world war ll.
Today with our peer support buddies we calculated our water footprint. We had to do a quiz and that told us how much water you use a day. Here is a link to the site if you want to find out your water footprint https://www.watercalculator.org/ We also found out ways to reduce water, here are some ways you can reduce water:
Turn off the tap while you brush your teeth
Have shorter showers
collect water in the summer
Here is a screen shot of the page so you can see how much water my family uses a day
Can you think of anymore ways to reduce water?
This trimester in my Cafe class we had to put all of our work onto one slide show. Our slides have to include: personal logo, Business card, colour pallette with 3-5 colours, menu with food and prices, our logo on a tee shirt and coffee cup and a poster to promote the opening of our new cafe. I made two business cards, one is my personal business card and the other my cafe business card.
If you had a cafe what would it look like?
