Ancient Egyptians - Year 6

Oliver and Isobel have been to share their Ancient Egyptian project homework. They've clearly put a lot of thought and effort into these pieces - well done!

Year 6 buggy project

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!