DLO area

 We are learning to calculate the perimeter, area and volume of shapes:

Our task:

Make two different shapes, using the unifix cubes, that have a volume of:

1.  36 cm cubed

(Insert photos of your two different shapes)

1.  What is the perimeter of each shape? Cube: 14 cm. Rectangle: 18 cm. 

2.  What is the area of the bottom level of each shape?  Cube: 6 cm.  Rectangle: 18 cm

What formula can we use to work out:

Perimeter: 2 x L + w

Area: Length x width

Volume: Length x width x height.

From this activity I learnt that the area can be the same, even if the shape changes but the perimeter might be different.

Hypothermia

 We are learning about hypothermia to keep safe while at camp!

Heatstroke and dehydration

 

We are learning about heatstroke and dehydration because we want to stay safe while at camp! 

Minecraft waka project

 

Forces and Motion: Marble run

On Tuesday, September the 15th, we made marble runs and we finished them off this morning. The goal was to make the marble last 20 seconds long on the marble run that we made. Me and my friends made a marble run and ours went for 3.58 seconds. That may not seem very long but we bet three groups.

We were doing the marble to finish off our topic, forces and motion. We were learning mainly about gravity and friction.

I enjoyed making the marble run because it was a lot of fun and it was very interesting.

I found it challenging because we had to keep improving it and fixing up our mistakes but other than that, it was really fun.

Next time I would try to make it last longer and try to slow the marble down.

How do honey bees use magnetism?

We had to choose an animal that used magnetism. I chose a honey bee.

It was very hard to find information on how honey bees used magnetism because there was hardly anything about how they used magnetism.

Catapult descriptive writing