Beakerhead
St.Wilfrid
"Our Ingenuity Project
By: Grade 4/5 , St. Wilfrid Elementary School
Dear Beakerhead,
Our Class project took a lot of effort and thinking. We wanted to make it as best as we could. Our communication was great. We had different groups making different things. Our project was to make a floating city. We couldn't find strong enough magnets so instead we decided to use pillars. We used pillars because it's the strongest building structure.We watched a movie called Next Gen. It gave us an inspiration for the future. In our floating city we used tin foil, paper, masking tape, cardboard, pillars (Tissue rolls), and toothpicks. Before we started building, the artists drew the diagram/blueprint for the builders to build. Our previous grades helped us a lot like Grade 2 Magnetism, Grade 3 Building and Testing Various Materials and grade 4 Simple Machines.
Our Groups had different Occupations like: journalists, Mangers, artists, infrastructure engineers, structural engineers, architects and construction workers. After that, we brought a large cardboard rectangle which we used as our base. Instead of tape, we all decided to use glitter glue. We got all our creations and glued them on our cardboard base. After everything was pasted on, the artists got together and started to add some finishing touches like, glitter glue, roads, and more futuristic stuff.
We all decided on a name for the city!
(we called it SKY HIGH).
The reason for this "floating city" is because of overpopulation and space for creating other gadgets.
St.Wilfrid
"Our Ingenuity Project
By: Grade 4/5 , St. Wilfrid Elementary School
Dear Beakerhead,
Our Class project took a lot of effort and thinking. We wanted to make it as best as we could. Our communication was great. We had different groups making different things. Our project was to make a floating city. We couldn't find strong enough magnets so instead we decided to use pillars. We used pillars because it's the strongest building structure.We watched a movie called Next Gen. It gave us an inspiration for the future. In our floating city we used tin foil, paper, masking tape, cardboard, pillars (Tissue rolls), and toothpicks. Before we started building, the artists drew the diagram/blueprint for the builders to build. Our previous grades helped us a lot like Grade 2 Magnetism, Grade 3 Building and Testing Various Materials and grade 4 Simple Machines.
Our Groups had different Occupations like: journalists, Mangers, artists, infrastructure engineers, structural engineers, architects and construction workers. After that, we brought a large cardboard rectangle which we used as our base. Instead of tape, we all decided to use glitter glue. We got all our creations and glued them on our cardboard base. After everything was pasted on, the artists got together and started to add some finishing touches like, glitter glue, roads, and more futuristic stuff.
We all decided on a name for the city!
(we called it SKY HIGH).
The reason for this "floating city" is because of overpopulation and space for creating other gadgets.