Year
6 buggy project!
by RH, 6D
Here is a blog about the
year six Buggy project we did. The dates and progress have been taken from
class 6D.
Tuesday 17th of March: On the 17th we started our project, Are
teacher showed us an instruction sheet that labeled what we had to do. First we
had to gather all of our equipment- A
ruler,pencil,saw,wooden vice, 58-60cm long sticks (we all had different
sizes!) and finally an iPad. We started by measuring how long our piece of wood
was; you had to use your maths skills to get 2 short pieces and 2 long pieces
so the frame would be a rectangle. For example if your frame piece of wood was
60 cm you would need 2x20 cm sticks and 2x10 cm sticks. After we made notes
where we needed to saw and then labeled them with our initials and how long the
piece of wood would be, then we sawed all of our wood. To make the frame
straight and smooth we used sandpaper and simply rubbed it across the ends of
our wooden sticks. Next we glued the frame into place and held each corner for
20 seconds. After they were all held into place we glued on card triangles to
give it extra support. During the activity if our group members had any
spacetime they filmed or took photos of what we were doing. This was all we
managed to do today.
Wednesday 18th March: On the 18th we finished the model of our car.
First we got given a massive piece of corriflute to share between the 4 members
on our tables. Then we had to either draw round our frame or use the template
and draw round. After we had the frames marked on the corriflute we began to
cut it out, it was extremely hard as the correlate was a thick material. We
eventually cut them out and if we was
ready for the next step. Now we had to stick the frame onto the corriflute, we
simply did that by putting glue on the frame and holding it down on the
corriflute. We waited roughly 20 minutes for them to try. Next we glued 2 pairs
of parallel triangle (with holes at the top) to the frame. After that we had to
cut out 2x14cm on cylindrical shaped wood. after the triangles had dried we
place the axles through the hole. We the placed the wheels on and an elastic
band from the front wheel to the back wheel. we left it there for today and let
our cars dry overnight.
Thursday 19th of March: We started of the lesson by watching a
demonstration from Miss Diamond on how to make our car move and how to make the
electrics work. First we had to put wheel bearings on all four wheels. Next we
had put an elastic band on one wheel. Now we had to connect our battery (x4)
into the holder, then clipped a pair of wires to the end of the holder. Now we
connected crocodile clips (x2) to the end of the wire leading to the motor. We
had to position the motor just right so the elastic band could be connected (to
the motor) and the wheels would move;it was a test of trial and error. Once it
was in the correct position we used masking tape to stick the wires, motor and
battery holder down onto the buggy. If we had any spare time we could decorate
our wheels with writing or patterns or take photos and film videos.
Friday 20th of March: Today our challenge was to create a switch for
the electric motor. We were give a paper fastener,paper clip, an extra
crocodile clip and a piece of card. We had to experiment lots of different ways
on how to do it.Here are some of the examples of the with: Connecting the paper
fastener to the crocodile clip and the motor or stick the card onto the buggy
then pierce the paper fastener through the card and attach the paper clip onto
the round side of the paper fastener. We didn't have a lot of time today so we
only had a short activity.
Tuesday
24 of March: So far we had everything completed except from the lid design. We
were given a sheet of A4 card and the resources in the classroom such as: felt,
netting, colouring pencils, colouring pens, coloured paper scissors, scrap
paper, glue and lots more. There was various designs of what people did, there
were sports cars with a convertible roofs, a bus, box cars, jeeps and buggies.
As well as decorating it we had to make space to turn the motor on and off. If
we completed the tasks that we did that day our buggys would be complete. If we
were finished and did know what to do we could add extra features. A majority
finished our buggies today!
