Callan's Evidence of learning

Fountain Rangers On tuesday  the 23 of August, 2017 lc7 started a new phase of projects. We got to think of what problems we thought were significant in the school and put all our ideas on a doc. After that we got into groups of three's and had to choose four of all the ideas and put them in order for what ones we thought were best. At the end of that procces  Evan, Aidan and I had got four options rated from best to worst. In number one we had the P.E shed not being accesible . In number two we had people treating the water fountains with disrespect. For number three we had people chasing after all the ducklings and scaring them, and in number four we had people not treating devices with respect. Once we had done that we split of into groups for what ones we wanted to work on the most. Evan, Aidan, Cohen, Lily-Rose, Lelani and I all chose the water fountain problem.

Sports Every week, on wednesday  some select people get to join a sport program in school time. It is run by high school students, and I think everyone will agree with me when I say it is really fun. The coaches are really nice, and although it seems like they like to dish out a lot of punishments , the games they run are awesome. A lot of the kids who haven't even played soccer before have learnt a lot. We all even had the opportunity to go to a soccer tournament, which I released a blog post about earlier. Here's the link if you want to read that one as well:  The soccer tournament.    

What bridge design can hold the most weight On the 2nd week of term 3, 2017 lc7 decided to learn about science. We had three options: Science fair, work for a science badge, or another which I can't remember. Harrison and I chose to do the science fair, and brainstormed an idea. We gathered information, summarized it, and then made a detailed hypothesis. The next week we started building our experiment. We made the warren truss first, which took us the longest as we had to figure out what sort of base design would work best. Next we made the deck truss, and we managed to finish that one in about one hour. The beam bridge was by far the easiest as we only had to make the layout. Next we tested how much the different bridges could hold. The Warren truss managed to hold 3 kgs, the beam bridge survived 4 kgs and the deck truss also held 4 kgs.      

For projects we had a choice between trying for a science badge, and working in our school science fair. Harrison and I are working together on our experiment where we test which bridge can hold the most weight. The contest is between the warren truss, the deck truss and the beam bridge. We believe the deck truss will be able to hold the most weight.