TinkerLab - Balloon Powered Vehicles!
In Moana 3, every Friday we have our TinkerLab challenge... last week we started our challenge with CREATE. Creating, Thinking, Problem Solving, Collaborating! We have our big junk box and our challenge this week was to create a vehicle that was powered by air out of a balloon. Most of us worked in buddies and created many different vehicles. We soon realised that we had to have free moving wheels and we had to think hard about how the propulsion from the air coming out of the balloon was going to move our vehicles and where we needed to attach the balloons - did we blow them up first or did we have to attach them and then blow them up? Lots of critical thinking! There was lots of practicing, taping and re-taping, modifications, changes and discussion! At the end of our 30 minutes we had a SHARING session with each other where we looked at each other's creations and discussed what modifications we could make for next time. We then di...