Wednesday 27 January 2016

The Spaceship Has Landed!

On Monday we visited the STEAM room -that's a room that involves using science, engineering, technology, art and math thinking to create, build, design things.  Our challenge today was to create a spaceship to safely land a person (which was a raw egg!) on the ground when it was dropped from space (a ladder).   The students were very excited to accept this challenge. We started by choosing a partner to work with and then creating a plan on paper of how we wanted our spaceship to look and what we thought would help keep our astronaut safe -which means we didn't want our egg to break!



























Once our plan was sketched out we chose what materials we wanted to use to build our spaceship. The ideas were flowing! There was lots of designing, redesigning and testing of ships (without the egginside) going on.










Once everyone was finished designing their spaceship the testing began.  Mrs. Soo stood at the top of the ladder and dropped each spaceship.  The students were excited to see if their person (the egg) survived the landing!  Some students were very upset that their person crashed!















 I think their plan worked!
Do you think their plan worked?


Tomorrow we are going to review what we learned with Mrs. Soo.  I wonder if anyone would change their plan after doing this once.  Can you think of why some landed safely and others didn't?
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  1. Ms. L and Division 621 February 2016 at 14:37

    This is such a wonderful idea. My class really enjoys design challenges. We've done a few different ones including designing our own Valentines holders that had at least one moving part. I have so many questions for your class Mrs. Betts about this challenge. Did your students have to bring your own supplies to the challenge or were they all in the STEAM room? Were the eggs raw when you texted them or were they cooked? How long did it you work on the spaceships? This is such a wonderful idea and I love how well your students worked together. I am a little more curious still of the total number of spaceships created how many were able to have the astronaut land safely on Earth?

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  2. Unknown22 February 2016 at 12:53

    Thank you for visiting our blog and leaving a comment. We have visited the STEAM room twice this year and it has been fun every time we have been there. Mrs. Soo, our librarian, has all the supplies in the STEAM room for us to use.The eggs were RAW!!! We had a total of one hour to design our spaceships and then we got to test them. We had 10 groups, so we had 10 spaceships! 6 landed safely. Can you tell how many did not?

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