My Technolgy Challenge

By Daniel Kazadi

In Room 7 we have been learning how to make a popsicle stick slide and tower. We were making a model because our old slide has broken. 

Mr Goodsir gave us instructions on how to make our slide, but first we needed to make our slide plan. 

We needed to have trusses to support the slide.  But we were only given popsicle sticks, hot glue gun etc. 

After we had finished we would show Mr Goodsir and he would give us our marks and then we could start building.

I think my slide turned out okay but I could have improved my slide a little bit more.

        





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 TECHNOLOGY CHALLENGE

The task we were given was to create a slide with trusses that was appealing and strong. We did this because our old slide wasn't safe so we designed a new one that would support more weight. 

Mr Goodsir talked to us about different kinds of trusses that could hold more weight than others. Most people used trusses that were shaped like crosses as they were the strongest.

We created our slide using popsicle sticks, toilet rolls and a hot glue. Then we

painted it and added stones for the ground. 

We think our slide's quite appealing but our trusses didn't work as well as we thought they would. The welding with the hot glue gun on our slide isn't very neat but we think everything else is fine.

Paint Ball Palace by Desmond, Ryan and Eliana

Mr Goodsir gave us the task of making a prototype of a new and improved  school slide!

The problem was the original slide is not earthquake proof. We had to design a slide with very, very strong trusses.


In this photo is a diagram of our slide design that we thought was the strongest. But in the future it didn't work out so well.

We had two boards to be the base of the slide. When we built the slide, we realized that we wouldn't have enough room to fit our slide so we had to improvise by adding a swimming pool at the bottom of it.

Each kid gets water proof school uniform!

MAX JOSHs presentation

Our Popsicle Stick Slide 

For our slide model we had to make it with a rectangular shape and we had to keep working with the same shape from there which made it harder to create. A square shape would have been better. 
Mr Goodsir said we needed to use trusses to hold up the slide and keep it stable. 

We (Max and Josh M) made a wall using hot glued popsicle sticks and we attached it to the slide to hold it up and in position. We glued the slide to the ground to hold it up.  

This is our slide,       

                                                             on an angle, 

and a close up...

Our thoughts,

We had some difficulties and problems making and creating the slide. Our problems were mainly making and gluing the roof down. We had to weave sticks in certain patterns and glue positions. Overall I think it is a good slide.

By Max S and Josh M.

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M.S.P Slide

The slide at our school was broken and we had to make a new prototype of it. 
Mr. Goodsir said we have to research and come up with some ideas. So we went on YouTube and didn't find anything. So then we went on Google Images and found an image but other people copied our design or found it at the same time. So we found another image. 
Mr Goodsir said we had to make sure our slide and trusses were strong.

We had lots of fun and enjoyed making the slide and tower and we think we created one of the best slides. The only thing that we could have managed better was the slide because we needed to make the slide was less steep at some points. 

By Maddie, Sophie and Paige.

Jamie, George and Ryan's slide design

This week room 7 has been creating slide designs to replace the existing yellow slide. We came up with the idea of a twin race slide.
First we started to make the base and roof. It was one storey high with a rock climbing wall up one slide made from little popsicle sticks. We made a roof over the wall so it wouldn't get slippery. We used rugby post trusses in our design to give the slide strength.

We all did hard work to try to make the best slide. We came upon some hurdles on the way but with our awesome team work we worked around them.

Our slide

Our Slide Design

Our challenge 

Mr. Goodsir assigned us with a task to make a slide with suitable trusses. We had to do this because our old slides trusses were not stable enough. We were only allowed to use Popsicle sticks, toilet rolls and hot glue guns for our slide.

This is our final slide.

This is our ladder to get into the slide.

These are our final trusses

     

Our tower is 

2 storeys high.

Our final thoughts

Now that our slide is finished we are very pleased with our result. We have learnt a lot from this experience and now know more about strength. If we could improve our design we would hide the welding and fix up the paint job.

By Meadow And Renee  

We had the task of creating a Popsicle stick model or prototype of the yellow slide  in the senior playground because that slide had been disapproved by the  Board of Trustees after an engineers report for safety reasons. We were trying to create a safer and stronger slide. We had to create a clear plan and most of all strong trusses. Mr Goodsir was looking at our plan, trusses and the finished project. 

This is our finished model;

This is a closeup of our trusses;

We would have liked to add another floor and maybe some more supports in the middle of the slide. We would also have liked to have more time so we could do some neater painting.

By Brooke & Emma

JJ AND ETHANS SLIDE

Our Popsicle Stick Slide

At school our big yellow slide is broken so we had to make a slide prototype with popsicle sticks and toilet paper rolls. We had to make sure we used trusses to hold it up. We learnt that trusses were good for holding heavy things up like our slide.
Our design for the slide was to kind of replicate the old tower but to have an open slide attached instead of a closed in slide. We also incorporated a monorail attached to the tower. When it came to painting the slide we came up with the idea of having fake grass instead of bark chips.

Ethan and I think that our slide turned out really well because we made the trusses really strong. But we also think that we could have improved on our presentation because our painting wasn't very good. Overall our slide turned out pretty good.

Room 7 technology challenge Poppy Kate and Zoe

Room 7 Technology Challenge

Our senior school slide is broken because people kept climbing on top of the old slide. So our class decided to do different prototypes to have ideas for a new slide in the senior playground. It needed to have trusses to make it strong. Our slide model is in the pictures below. The stones are blue, purple and green to give it effect and to attract young students.  

We think our slide is good and safe but we needed to put more glue under the slide to connect it to the tower to make the slide stronger to go down.

Wonky Worm

Wonky Worm
Mud street Garden
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Hac,

I am a worm who lives in your amazing garden. This is a letter to say the things that are not so amazing about it.
First of all Mr. Hac your "lawn mower" is more like a "life or death" machine {to worms.} Beacause it has killed 10 of my friends. I hope you will stop! Secondly Mrs. Hac will please cut up the left overs into smaller pieces  I mean surely you would know how small our mouths are.

Kind regards,
Wonky Worm


By Meadow