Rube Goldburg Machine

LI: to make a working Rube Goldberg machine using the six simple machines

LI: To make a working rube Goldberg machine by using the 6 simple machines. Over the past weeks, in groups LS1 had to make a Rube Golderg machine, We used the 6 simple machines. Wheel and axle, Lever, Incline plane, Pulley, Screw & wedge had to be included. The challenges were turning a Chromebook on, helping Mr Wong roll dice and hitting a putter. Our scenario was turning on the Chromebook. On the last week our group had managed to get the machine finish. We used four different types of simple machines a wheel and axle, pulley, incline plane and a lever. For the wheel and axle we used a car. For the Pulley we used a string from a yo-yo and latches from the window. For the incline plane we used a marble roll down a ramp. And used the dominoes as the lever. The most challenging task was creating the machines and trying to apply the 6 simple machines and communicating with our group to know what is going on and how we could help. I'd change another way of putting dominoes up without it falling because we always had to keep putting it up. And the amount of sellotape we used.

Rugby positions

                                      L.I: apply inquiry, literacy and numeracy skills to learn about the RWC.

We are doing a Rugby World Cup Challenge. We had to use our reading, writing, and maths skills to complete the task. The task is to match what the player position is. We then wrote some information about them and about what their position does. We have also made the position layout of where each player is. We searched up facts about them and found some amazing records that players have made.

Rugby Events

L.I: apply inquiry, literacy and numeracy skills to learn about the RWC.
We are doing a Rugby World Cup Challenge. We had to use our reading, writing, and maths skills to complete the task. The task was to write down the memory that you liked that was about the Rugby World Cup. We had to do three so each person did one. We had to also add some videos of the highlights of the game, if our favorite memory was about a specific game.

World time

LI: apply inquiry, literacy and numeracy skills to learn about the RWC.

We are doing a Rugby World Cup Challenge. We had to use our reading, writing, inquiry, and maths skills to complete the task. The task we were doing was to find the kick off time of the finals for different countries. We had to find the USA standard times, New Zealand standard time and other standard time from different countries. The meaning of AM and PM. AM means Anti meridian and PM means Post meridian. AM means before morning and PM means after noon. While researching we learnt that big countries like Australia have different time zones. USA has a western time and eastern time because it is a big country.

Thneed

LI: to create an advert using the skills and knowledge we know
For the next couple of weeks we are going to be creating Advertisements. A print advert and a television advert. But in the adverts we have to include the critical analysis. Our product was a Thneed. A fictional product from the story "The Lorax". We did a fictional object so we could come up with our own ideas.

Faulty reasoning

                                        LI: to understand faulty reasoning
Faulty reasoning is arguing or talking with someone but your facts or statistics don't make sense or aren't true. There are different types of faulty reasoning: Illogical / simplified Assumption, Circular reasoning, over-generalization, biased argument and contradiction. Meanings are on the slide. We had to read a text and find the faulty reasoning in them and then put them onto the slide.

Kiwi Can

L.I to cope with challenges.                                                                                                                  We learnt how to face our challenges and experience/attempt them. We looked at 3 different types of challenges and wrote about our feelings when we face those challenges. We figured out coping strategies in groups of three. The activity was about getting in groups of three and writing down a plan, and the challenges we want to write about.