Friday STEM Day!!

I'm sure you already heard that we had some awesome fun creating boats with tin foil on Friday. before we started creating we discussed what sinking, floating, and capacity are. We started by sketching a plan. We then set off on our own or with a partner to create a boat we thought would not only float but hold weight.

 Working with tin foil is pretty tricky, but room 2 did an awesome job giving it a go.

Once we made our boats we tested if they could float and hold weight. Some of our boats sank and quite a few held lots of weight.

 Koby and Hugo worked as partners and where the first to be succesful in having all 48 marbles in their boat. It was awesome to hear them discussing how they needed to spread the weight out and not just have it all in the middle. The also realised the fact that they made a boat that had a bigger area to put the marbles helped it stay floating. 

 Olivia's boat stayed floating with all 48 marbles as well. Ka pai Olivia!

 Joeys boat looked awesome and stayed afloat.

 Brodie built an awesome boat, but there were a couple low spots and down it went to the bottom of the tub. I was so impressed that Brodie didn't get upset, but set right back to creating a better boat he showed awesome resilience. 

 Here we are back at the drawing board trying to figure out how we can make our boats better.

These three got super creative and decided to add some extra pieces to their boats.

 Islas second attempt held all 48 marbles. Way to go Isla!