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.
; make a table that was able to balance M&Ms for the team.
We were much better at the second challenge because
the table was stronger than the chair and the M&M's were lighter than the multi-block figure
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 this, We made mini tea bag rockets (and tinfoil ones)
it was quite a challenge to make all the rockets just in a few days
(We started making them like a week after research
Reflection
My highlight from this PBL was making the rockets and boxing them,
and I loved going around to see what other amazing things people made
Next time I would try make something more complicated
because I think the experience of making all this stuff is really fun,
it was a lot of stress on the last day we had to make as much rockets
as we could but we got there, in the middle of the selling spree, we sold
out and there was supposed to be a orange gem in one of the boxes,
but I think people were just buying them for the prize you get if
you got the orange gem in your box
