Paper Chairs! STEM.

We are learning to problem solve as a team.
We made a chair out of paper and tape it had to be 10 cm.
My team was  Mayah Talulah  Miller and Me but Miller wasn´t here so it was the three of us. We had about half an hour to make our paper chair. At the end I was pretty proud of it but when it was testing time we didn´t even make through the first stage. Stage one was a Chicorita plushie (Chicorita= Pokemon), and stage two was a long Tuatara. The thing that went well was probably all of us having a role to do, and the what we need to work on might be working as a team. It was pretty challenging making a chair out of paper I mean it harder then you think it is right.

Have you ever made something out of paper?

The Balloon Experiment

Last Wednesday we did an experiment with some balloons we learnt about density and surface pressure and how things float so we did an experiment with some balloons we acted like the balloons were the water and that we were floating on it. We were learning to write recounts in a recount there are...  The intro which has to have the five w's the five w's are who, what, when, where, and why. After the intro there is the main body that includes all of the main parts in the recount. Then there is the conclusion that is how you felt and all of your feelings.

The Balloon Experiment.

Last Wednesday  Room 4 did an experiment with the balloons.

We did it in Room 4. We did it because we wanted to continue on stem for surface pressure. 

 At first we didn't know what we were doing but then Miss Hart pulled out a packet of balloons and handed one out to everyone. We started to blow up the balloons and put them in the middle. Miss Hart asked some people to help get a move a desk upside down onto the balloons. After that we got into a circle and she got the desk on the balloons. The people that went on first were Kate G and Nevaeh. They looked like they were pretty scared and after a while they got off. Miss Hart chose some more people I was the first person I got on straight away and stood up and waited. She chose five more people they were, Quinn, Alex, Aimee, Ocea, and Bryce. Bryce kept on jumping up and down and trying to make the balloons. But I told him to stop.

I felt pretty nervous about getting on the desk on the balloons but pretty excited at the same time. But I loved it! It was probably the best experiment ever!

Escape Room

Escape Room                                

  We have been learning to work in teams with people in different classes to problem solve. For the past couple of weeks we have been doing stem challenges with the kids in room 2. Today we did an escape room. The escape room was based on our emotions and there were 7 tasks and 7 clues. Each task was a different strategie. Once you had finished a task we went to Miss Hart and she gave us a word when we got all 7 words we had to put the words in their order and say to the teacher what the sentence is. The thing that worked the best in my team was that everyone got something to do and the people in my team are Oli from room 2 Sophia from room 2 Nevaeh from room 4 Jayden from room 4 and Fletcher from room 4 ( Fletcher is me). The thing that we need to work on the most was listening to other peoples ideas and not talking over people and not shout. My goal is not to go off and find all the clues. Have you ever played escape room? P.S Our team got first!