We have been working on identifying different types of materials, their properties and choosing materials to do specific jobs.

 

We combined all these skills in making houses to protect little paper people.  From our work on houses and homes, we knew that houses had to be strong and waterproof. We could choose from lego, jenga bricks, playdoh, bubblewrap, metal and wood.  Have a look at the results in our photos below….

We made the people to go in our houses out of paper and pens so if the water came through we would be able to tell. (B.O)

 

1. Our house was strong but not waterproof because the bubblewrap roof was too small. Our people got very soggy but it didn’t blow down! It was very delicate to move.

 

 2. We put lots of bubblewrap on the roof so the little people stayed dry. We used lego for the walls and because we thought that it would be strongest. We used the bubblewrap on top to make it waterproof.

 

3. Our house was strong but not waterproof. The roof didn’t blow down, but they got wet. We did lego for the walls and bricks for the roof.

 

4. Our house was strong.  We used lego and bricks. Putting it together was tricky. The jenga blocks and playdoh were tricky to put together. We used the bricks for the walls.

 

 

5. We used metal for the roof so the water wanted to go off it (run down).  The lego walls were strong. We didn’t have time to make big walls.

 

6. We made the walls from Jenga bricks because we thought it would be strong but it wasn’ so we kept adding more playdoh. Our people got a little bit wet.  The roof was made of lego.  We added extra bits into the gaps.

 

We had two houses that were strong and waterproof.  These were the best designs with the best materials.