Wednesday 20 March 2019

Week 6 - How to build a roller coaster


Welcome to an exciting and new Whakapono 24 work.

The children have worked very hard over the last couple of weeks.

 The children have completed their Roller Coaster STEAM challenge.  




The writing was procedural writing

how to build a straw roller coaster.

materials you need
Hot glue gun
Scissors
Straws
Bowl
Pencil
Cardboard
Cotton balls
paint.


Step 1-To build a straw roller coaster you will first need these materials...paper,hot glue gun,straws,cardboard,cotton balls, scissors and foam cup.

Step 2-you have to make a hole in the box, after that fold the paper in half then again and make sure it is 25.cm also glue the gap that is left so the paper won’t go up and down.

Step 3-get a straw that is 22.5cm and start building.make a tunnel using a cardboard peace and hot glue gun the tunnel onto the side of the straw.use the cotton balls and stretch the cotton ball making it a spider web.

Step 4-end the roller coaster with a foam cup., cut the cumps side in a square and hot glue gun a straw that is 5.6cm gloe it to the side of the door.

enjoy our straw roller coaster



Our Reading

Reading work-  Record all your readings you have done for this project

Name:Trevor angell

Learning Intention:finding key information and summarise the text.

I have put the readings I require you to do.  Have you done any more?

What website did I get my information
What was the key information?
Summarise the text in your own words
Videos,what you need straws,
hot glue gun scissors and
cardboard ping pong ball
What you need for your straw roller
coaster first you need straws
so you can make a straw roller coaster
then you need hot glue gun so you
can make the straws stay still
when the ping pong ball is going
down and need to hold the straws down
for 7 seconds you also need scissors
so you can cut the straws in
the right size you really need a piece of
cardboard for the base to finish
it off a ping pong ball so it can go
down your roller coaster



Our finish product
































3 comments:

  1. good job of presenting our class's roller coasters

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  2. I had fun doing this project and the roller coasters a all cool the way they a and even the catapults a cool the way they a even do I did not finish my one.

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  3. I had fun doing the catapults and roller coasters and they a so cool the way they a and we used materials and we made it from doing a drawing plan and by publishing it the materials.

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