LI: To design and make a paper plane that will fly the furthest.
For this week’s maths, LS2 has been learning about measurement and distances by building paper planes to understand the maths behind it. After making them, we then analysed our data of the paper air planes we flew. Our group designed multiple planes to verify which of the planes flew the best. The plane that went the furthest was the plane I made. Lastly we versed group by group and measured the flight distance accurately.
Today, Panmure Bridge School and the rest of our Manaiaklani cluster visited the Hoyts Cinema at Sylvia Park to celebrate the annual Manaiakalani Film Festival. The Manaiakalni Film Festival is an event where the schools within the Manaiakalani cluster come together and showcase a series of short films made from different classes to share new ideas and inspire eachother.
The schools within the Manaiakalani cluster are Panmure Bridge School, Sommerville, Point England School, Fidelis, Ruapotaka School, Glenbrae School, Tamaki College, Glen Innes School, Stonefield School and Glen Taylor School.
My favorite film is ‘Photos day’ by Room 4 of Point England. I liked the way they showcase their problems on photos day.
Something I enjoyed about this event is that we can sit and relax and watch the movies.
LI: to identify the 4 different modes of transport and their changes over time.
The 4 different modes of transport are air, land, sea and rail. We explored more about the types of transportation and how they have evolved over time to build an understanding of how humanity makes changes to vehicles like cars, boats, trains and planes.
An example of air, land, sea and rail based vehicles are planes and helicopters, cars and trucks, boats and yachts and trains and trams.
I found this task challenging because I had to include simple and interesting information about sea, land, air and rail based vehicles. An interesting fact I learnt during this activity was that there are multiple inventors that are mistaken to be the creator of the plane and society has confused different inventors as the first people to make a plane.