Design and Technology Project
This term in Geography year Six have been looking at how mountain ranges, such as the Himalayas were formed. The research included looking at how the earth's crust is divided into tectonic plates. At the boundaries of plate tectonic plates we found out that mountains are sometimes formed but also this is the area where most of the the more violent earthquakes occur.
This inspired us to do a design and technology project based on designing, building and evaluating structures that could withstand an earthquake. Our Design Brief was to: Design and make a structure that will fit on the ‘shake tray’; it must be at least 30 cm high and withstand shaking for 10 seconds.
The shake tray used computer code to shake a tray of jelly to represent the earth's crust.
Below are photographs of our planning, designing, testing and evaluating our structures.
This inspired us to do a design and technology project based on designing, building and evaluating structures that could withstand an earthquake. Our Design Brief was to: Design and make a structure that will fit on the ‘shake tray’; it must be at least 30 cm high and withstand shaking for 10 seconds.
The shake tray used computer code to shake a tray of jelly to represent the earth's crust.
Below are photographs of our planning, designing, testing and evaluating our structures.
Here is a video of some of our structures.
Look at the videos below to see the structures being tested on the shake tray to simulate if they would survive an earthquake.
Shake 2 from Blue Gate Fields Junior School on Vimeo.