This term our Project Based Learning (PBL) has been about design and the big question was; How can we use a Steam approach to make a marketable product?
First we learned what STEAM stood for.
S for Science
T for Technology
E for Engineering
A for the Arts
and M for Maths
Then we were given challenges. The first to make a chair using newspaper, string and straws that was able to hold a figure made out of multi-link blocks.
Then; make a table that was able to balance MnMs for the team. We were much better at the second challenge because we learnt from the first challenge what and what not to do
Here is my Technology Template
In Literacy we learned to write up science experiments and to write a technology report using the design process of ask, imagine, plan, create, improve and share.
Our next step was to form teams and ask ourselves the big question again.
How can we use a Steam approach to make a marketable product? Our aim was to create enough products or experiences and sell it to raise money for charity.
My team made bowling with bubble bottles, you would bowl a ball and the first bottle you knocked over you got a lollie. Here is a photo.
My highlight from this PBL was actually making it and then selling them to make money for charity
Next time I would plan out my invention a little bit better.
Let me know if you have ever had a market day and hope you come
back next time.
BYE.
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