Room 10, 3, and 6 are very excited to be heading off to Rainbows End in 5 days time. We have been building our own paper rollercoasters and learning all about the forces behind them. It will be a great opportunity to start celebrating the end of year as a team and put all our knowledge about roller coasters into reality by looking and feeling the physics behind roller coasters.
Tyla, Shenae, Jade and Bonnie have worked very hard on their Roller Coaster and have 2 tracks leading down to the checkered flag at the bottom. Shenae's favourite part is the funnel because the marble just spins around for ages. Jades favourite part is the spiral and likes how fast it goes around. Bonnie likes the loop because of all the stored potential energy that has been turned into kinetic energy makes the marble not fall out when it goes upside down. Tyla enjoyed the making process and deciding where everything went and is quite proud of her chectered finish flag.
During our roller coaster unit some of the students have been very creative with their ideas and roller coaster design. Here is Leo, Matenga, Grant and Hax's creative jump ending. It took them 4 tries to place the box in the right place..... it looks great!
Our vision:
CanTeen’s vision is to bring together all young people living with cancer.
Our mission:
CanTeen’s mission is to support, develop and empower young people living with cancer.
To find out more visit http://www.canteen.org.au/default.asp?menuid=17
We spent $4 to buy a bandanna to help support child cancer.
Our thoughts.....
Bonnie said - "It's good to support the people who need help"
Jade said - "I am helping people get better"
Thomas said - "The bandannas are cool and it's nice to help"
Megan said - "I bought a bandanna beause I want to help the cancer society and the bandannas are really colourful!"
Christina and Jessica were given a task to create a teaching resource based on centripetal and centrifugal forces as the had previously learnt a bit on this topic. This resource is being used to educate and tech the rest of the class. This is a great resource and will be used in conjunction with other practical tasks. Ka Pai!
