Good Afternoon everyone!
Posted on the SLJ (Summer learning journey) site provided the SLJ participants with an activity!
Today I had to build my very own race car using recycled materials around the house. They prepared inspiration videos to expand our creativity, and on what to use as building materials.
Below is an attachment of a short video containing my experience making my race car.
Enjoy!
For this task I had to create a timeline of what I may be doing when I am 17, 34, 51, 68 and 85. I had to think about where I will be, how I might feel and what I might be doing.
The reason why I am doing this is because I have learned that Cicadas are able to do maths according to their life cycle and how they are able to prevent usual predator attacks by using the prime numbers. However this task is based on me for every 17 years of my life.
Below will show my timeline and the information about where I will be, what I could be doing and how I may feel.
34 - I believe I will be in my first year working as a Cosmetic Surgeon usually earning between $72,000 and $124,000. Using the income I will pay off the fees. I wish to keep in contact with current friends at school and will totally keep in touch with my family. Hoping I will find a home that I can settle into before having my own little “Hope” family.
51 - Hopefully by then I will have a family of my own, supporting them along their way through life including my original. As I said before I believe I would be a Cosmetic Surgeon hopefully working in the private sector at the top will earn me up to 600,000 which will help me support my loved ones and myself with bills, mortgage, landmark, etc
68 - At this age I would want to make the most of being at a average age to be able to go around and have fun. Go overseas, travel, trips, hangouts or do things that will be memorable. Catch up with people or go out and explore more. I may have a partner to company throughout the activities and perhaps have my family/friends tag along.
85 - Around this age I would probably be looking after grandchildren. I would most likely be retired, resting and relaxing. I would feel like living the rest of my life enjoying and supporting my loved ones, wishing for the best until the end.
This weeks task is about creating something that floats!
Making things float must have air apart of the objects structure. Something called buoyancy; description of how afloat or buoyant something is.
What materials can be used to make things float? Wood is a perfect example as it has many little air pockets inside keeping it afloat. Some boats and canoes are made out of wood because it is reliable on water. However rocks are the opposite. They usually don't float because they lack air in them, materials like that are heavy and dense.
I can use anything that I can find in the house to create my floating invention, ANYTHING.
Once I have engineered my new invention I will need to test it!
I will Measure how far it will be able to sail and how much load it can carry before it sinks.
The material I used in the house is paper. The heavy objects I used in my experiment were marbles.
Watch my video to see my experience during this experiment!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uNk4N0CvK7Tv_1fAgZdW0jGx3oZMHToK/view
(If their are any problems occurring the video please let me know, thank you)
