Last week students from Maclean Public School saw all of their planning, prototyping and building turn into action, on the water. It all started when student David Torrens said, “ It would be cool if we could build a raft in the Makerspace!’ We were super excited and started working on our ideas. We began by researching rafts and floatation and then drew up some plans. From there we made small scale models of a variety of rafts and tested their floatation and stability.
After we decided on which model we would build, we researched materials to find light and buoyant products. We also had to think about how much weight the raft had to support. This maths was fun. Ms Phillips and Mr Woods helped us get the materials and taught us how to use the tools we needed to build with. We had lots of fun working together turning David’s idea into a real raft.
We all went to Yamba and tested our raft out. It was so much fun and the best thing was that it FLOATED!
Category Archives: Maths
STEM Conference
Maclean Public School’s STEM Team attended this conference to collaborate and gain a greater understanding of how to integrate STEM into our school.
Making 3D Shapes with food in 2A.
Digital Art
3D Shape Hunt
KP have been learning about 3D shapes in maths. We took our i-Pads on a shape hunt in the playground. We found some shapes and used the i-Pad to take pictures and then tagged our pictures with information using the Thing-link app.
KP and K1/R Maths with Geoboard
PREMIER’S SPELLING BEE
SIM-ON-A-STICK
Book Fair
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Book Fair 2013, was a highly successful event. All students embraced the theme “Come dressed as your favourite book character”. There were some amazing outfits. The school sold over $2000 worth of books. It was fabulous to see the scool and wider community involved in this great event. Proceeds from the day will be used to purchase Ipads for the library.