Wind Racers

Wind Racers

How my group worked together
I think that my group worked quite well considering the fact that there were only two of us, which were myself and Shikobi.

How successful our wind racer was
Our original one worked better than the one with changes.

How I found this activity
I found this activity quite interesting and fun at the same time.

Research
My group didn't really do much research as we already had a fair idea of what we were going to do. However, we did come across a pirate ship looking design to create.

Design
The design we had chosen was the pirate looking one as it looked interesting and was more appealing than the average triangular shaped one. The design was a square which had curves in places.

Build
The sails were made of newsprint and cardboard. Our sail was attached straight onto the metal rod with tape. Each of them were placed evenly at the bottom and top of the rod.

Test
We went outside to race them. We used a leaf blower. Our first try went 70cm.

Redesign/Make Changes
The changes we made were to the bottom sail. We changed it because it was stiff and didn't help as much as we thought.

Test
Our second go didn't go as we planned as it completely failed because it didn't have enough support in the bottom sail.

Evaluate
Overall our original sail worked better than the second one. However, we could have added less cardboard to our original design so it wouldn't be too light or heavier than it was in the first place.

Exhibition

ROMAN & EGYPTIAN EXHIBITION

My Group

In my group was only myself and Stevie-Lee

What We Did

We based our project on Roman food. Suppli was the type of food we made which is made up of rice,tomatoes, minced beef, wine, breadcrumbs, vegetable stock, eggs, cheese and some wine. We also made the recipe and history about the suppli.

Interesting Thing I Learnt

The Romans drunk too much wine

Favourite Thing

The food we made

Working In A Group

It was great because there was only two of us

Video

Speech

WHAT WAS YOUR PRESENTATION ABOUT?
My presentation was about name pronunciation and the experiences I've had over the years as well as other people who have encountered the same situation as me.

WHICH PART OF YOUR WORK WERE YOU PROUD OF?
I was proud of the way I put other people in my speech who had experienced the same thing I had.

WERE THERE ANY CHALLENGES?
No

WOULD YOU DO ANYTHING DIFFERENT NEXT TIME?
Use more hand gestures

Mummification

Pizza

Pizza

Practical Week 6

Teamwork Aspects

Tasks: The task was to make pizza.

Skills Within Team: We worked well with each other. We all did our own pizza and we worked
together.

Improvements: Nothing really

Time Management: We managed our time well and finished 20 minutes early

Product/Outcome: It turned out good and tasted good.

Feedback: The turnout was good but could have been a bit better. We could have less oil next
time.

Taste/Texture: It was good. The texture was oily.

Next steps for own learning: Work at a faster pace

Textiles

TEXTILES TERM 3

In textiles term 3 we have been doing a lot of different printing techniques for our own fabric prints. By term 4 we are planning on developing our own printed piece of fabric and turning it into a bag, any type of clothing or anything we want to create. So far this term we have learned about different colours, how to make and use stencils, block-printing, and screen printing. My favourite so far has been the screen printing because I had never done it before and it is really unique in the way we print our pattern.

Screen Printing Finished

Trying different types of stencils

Block Printing

Lino Print

Pyramid Making

PYRAMIDS
Today in social studies we have been learning about the Egyptian pyramids and got to build our own pyramids out of Lego!

• Pyramids were built as burial places and pharaohs monuments. They put things like treasure, gifts and things they might need in the afterlife.
• There are 138 pyramids and the largest is Khufu
• The largest pyramid is around 480 feet tall
• They were made with steps that gradually faded they further up the pyramid
• All pyramids were built to the north side of the river Nile because the south side was dead land
• They put traps to keep the robbers out and they were made from limestone
• They were the tallest man-made sculpture for around 300,800 years