MAKE IT MONDAY - RUBBISH ROBOT CHALLENGE

The kids at Riverdale have been littering in the playground quite a bit lately.  

We decided something HAS to be done!

Keira and Holly H came up with the Rubbish Robot Challenge.  

They presented us with the challenge today...

The girls showed us a video about all the plastic and styrofoam that ends up in the oceans.

We WONDERED what we could do to help with the rubbish around the school.  We spent some time with our group brainstorming all our ideas on what we needed to know to make our robot and to met the success criteria.

Next we went through to EXPLORE.  This is were we find out all the answers to our questions.  The teachers had also set up the Bee-Bots for us to practise our coding.

In EXPLORE, we watched videos on Ocean Pollution.

After we EXPLORED and had gathered all the information we needed, we went to meet Mrs Kenyon at the REFLECT Checkpoint.  We had to prove that we are ready to move into the ACT phase.



Now here comes the messy part... ACT!  We love this bit!  It's time to make our robots.  First we make a plan and list all the materials that we will need and then we set to work.

Here are a few of our finished Rubbish Robots...

In the afternoon we assess our Rubbish Robots against the success criteria.  Our teachers are so impressed with how honest we are when we are assessing our robots. 

MEASURING FUN

Today some of us watched a video story of Cosmo the Boat Cat...

Mrs Lunn issued us with a challenge.  On Thursday we are going to make a boat to sail in the school pool.  But first we need to find out all about weight  so that we can make our boats.

We used a stretchy machine to measure how
heavy things are

We measured the capacity of different obects
to see how much things hold

We made our very own weighing machines
 to weigh things in

We watched this funny song about weight too...

You can help us at home by getting us to help you cook tea or bake.  We would love to use the scales at home.  You might like to ask us about which objects are heavier or lighter than others.

Vocabulary we are beginning to use:

• weight
• weigh
• lighter
• heavier
• balance
• scales