Kia Ora.
On Tuesday this week, room 9 and 11 were settled in the Hall to do a science experiment. There were some white plastic bags scattered all over the floor that included the same material, such as: Two each of A2 Newspaper, 2 paper straws, 1 plastic straw, also having a roll of cello tape, scissors, 2 meters of string, a rectangle piece of cardboard, polyester, and a circle shaped foam. They all sorted into their groups that had four people per group. Some groups are expected to have at least one engineer in them, but a few didn’t. My group had an engineer in it which made our group a lot better. Even without an engineer, we’d probably still manage.
Anyways Whaea Peta explained what we have to do, and what we have to use the materials for. Our task was to use those materials to protect a boiled egg from breaking by dropping it from the second floor in the Hall.
My idea of protecting the egg was to create a parachute for it, but it seems that my group disagreed. Which wasn’t a good idea. Because when I made the parachute, they decided to change it into something else. If you’re keen on knowing how I made the parachute, I used tape to attach the A2 paper together but bending it to create a pocket for the egg to settle in. I also added straws to the top corner of my pocket so the white plastic bag (the one that had the materials in it) can act like the parachute and pick up the air through it as it’s falling. We tried protecting the egg by adding polyester under the egg and to help hold the polyester up, we added foam underneath and then wrapped the A2 newspaper around x2 before stupidly adding cardboard around the egg thinking that its going to be ‘Extra’ secure (don’t worry, we did add tape to hold it up.) Lastly, we added the white plastic bag so the egg doesn’t crack when it hits the ground. Our hypothesis; we all bet that our egg would survive falling about 9ft or 10(? we’re not sure how far our egg has dropped from the second floor)
When one of my buddies went upstairs to the top floor in the Hall, she was ready to drop the egg. Whaea Peta was counting down from 3, as Tanya took pictures for us to look back on. Here’s the picture of my buddy holding up our invention… and when she dropped it. (The person on the right)
Later on when every group had a turn dropping their tests, Peta and Tanya opened up the eggs that were now on the floor to check if it cracked or not. A few openings later, Tanya found our egg and opened it; and it turns out that our egg.. cracked.
When we heard the news, we were disappointed. Next time we could do better.
STEAM. Meaning Science, Technology, Engineering, Art(s), and Mathematics.
For science, we did the planning, for technology we ‘protected’ the egg. For engineering, we connected the pieces together, including arts, we eye’ed the design, and finally, for maths, we calculated whether our egg is going to break or not – by looking at how high the second floor is to the first.
I hope you understood my explanation, bye!