As a way to learn about levers we made some Cardboard Monsters this afternoon. We are working up to a #makerspaceNL project…
Category: STEM
Automata Finished
This week the pupils all finished their Automata. There are a few photos in the video before footage of the machines in action:
Today we presented to the parents & guests about our STEM (or STEAM) learning, including a section on the automata Project. The children did a brilliant job of writing scripts, creating presentations and talking to an audience.
Highlights of the week, seismographs & science
We have had a busy week this week. Highlights for me included our work on Earthquakes. The children did some research to find out the basic facts and yesterday made some model seismographs to explore how these instruments works.
Learning about Earthquakes
We used our research skills to find how about earthquakes.
States of Matter
Mr Wevling started a new science topic, looking at the different states of matter.
Christmas Engineering Challenge
The Children rose to the NLC Learning Hub Christmas Engineering Challenge.
We posted an in progress report Christmas Engineering Challenge Part 1 last week.
We lost some time on Friday as no children were in school due to snow.
This week we finished off and have started to make movies of our reindeer. All of the groups managed all of the chilli challenges! Watch the movies to see how. (A couple more currently in production)
reindeer 1
Reindeer 2
Reindeer 3
reindeer 4
reindeer 5
Christmas Engineering Challenge Part 1
The NLC Learning Hub has issued a Christmas Engineering Challenge:
The biggies started work this morning. We are making Reindeer from Cardboard and hope to include movement, electrics & coding. It might take a while…
Most of the groups got a lot of their model finished this morning. We used our teamwork, creativity & problem solving skills. On group got on to the moving part:
By lunchtime we had made a lot of progress:
More to do…
Exploring Lego
For this term the Biggies have been working on a Lego Explore topic. It took us right up to the last week!
Today the children finished some ‘poster boards’ explain what they have learned.
The Dog Fam
Lego Go
Clouds
Lego Explore
We have been lucky enough to borrow some lego kits from NLC Stem. and started to get to grips with the Spike Robot yesterday. As well as the obvious coding and creativity skills this allows the Biggies to practise their excellent team work.
Christmas with the Biggies
Yesterday we had some challenges in the playground, make a sleigh, some decorations and a fairy grove.
Today some of the class worked in Minecraft on some the same tasks and a giant Santa:
Some of the Children worked more on their CodeClub Jazzy Jumpers:
And
Balloon Car Maths
After creating and exploring the science behind our balloon cars yesterday we used them for maths today.
We practised measuring distance in metres & centimetres and time in seconds. Then we calculated the speed of our cars by dividing the distance traveled by the time taken.
thanks to The Royal Institution for the idea Balloon car racers
Scribble Bots 2 – But is it Art?
We had great fun finishing of our scribble bots and making some “art”. We found that chunks of glue stick worked better than rubbers to keep the wobble going.
Is it Art? you be the judge:
We also used videos, pictures, drawing to write reports and instruction about Scribble Bots on our e-portfolios.
