ROOM 11 CATCH UP...

Of late room 11 has been extremely busy with all kinds of learning experiences here is a run down of what has happened in the past 3 weeks.

Goodbye Connor

In week seven room 11 said farewell to their classmate Connor. To mark the occasion we had a shared lunch and Tim and Pablo created a fantastic pop-up card for Connor which all the members of room 11 signed. 

Have a safe time overseas Connor.

BP CHALLENGE

The latest BP Challenges that room 11 have completed recently have included designing and creating a back pack and created a device to complete a Macgyver-like challenge.

Back-pack Challenge

For the back-pack challenge the students were given the scenario that they were staying the night at a friend's house and needed to take a bag to keep their belongings in. They had already lent their bag to a family member and thus they needed to make a new one. 

Using newspaper, a vivid, sello-tape, and a pair of scissors the students had to create a bag that could be opened and closed and was visually appealing.

The winning design was a Justin Bieber inspired back-pack! 

MacGyver Challenge

For the MacGyver related challenge the students needed to design a device that would retrieve a hammer from 2 metres away. 

They had to pretend that a group member had their feet embedded in a newly poured concrete floor on a building site. The concrete had set sufficiently for them to be unable to pull their feet out but is not yet hard. Nearby is a bomb that is set to go off in 10 minutes time. They must drag a hammer that they have spotted within reach, chip away the concrete, escape and possibly defuse the bomb!

This proved to be another tricky challenge many of the groups can painfully close to retrieving the hammer with the devices they created but had no luck.

EXPLANATIONS

So far this term room 11 have written many different types of explanations. In week 7 the students wrote an explanation about a type of ray gun that they could invent to carry out a particular type of purpose. The ray gun explanations created by the students were wacky and very inventive. Some examples included 'The Invisible Be Quiet Ray', 'The Camera Ray' and 'The Multi Purpose Softener Ray'.