Market Day

This term our Project Based Learning (PBL) has been about design and the big question was; How can we use a Steam approach to make a marketable product?

First we learned what STEAM stood for.
S for Science
T for Technology
E for Engineering
A for the Arts
and M for Maths
Then we were given challenges. The first to make a chair using newspaper, string and straws that was able to hold a figure made out of multi-link blocks.
Then; make a table that was able to balance MnMs for the team. We were much better at the first challenge because … We had an idea and we stuck to it which in the other one we had so many ideas that we lost track.

In Literacy we learned to write up science experiments and to write a technology report using the design process of ask, imagine, plan, create, improve and share.

Our next step was to form teams and ask ourselves the big question again.
How can we use a Steam approach to make a marketable product? Our aim was to create enough products or experiences and sell it to raise money for charity.

My team ran a game, in the game you had to slingshot the pictures and if you got three points you got three prizes, one point you get one prize and so on. We had to let the youngest kids throw at the target because we didn’t realise it would be so hard for them to use the slingshots. We also sold little bottles of perfume that all had a different sought of smell.



Reflection

My highlight from this PBL was making all the products and coming up with all the ideas. I liked making the targets to sling at and painting them as well.

Next time I would make sure that we had organised who had their breaks when and I would make sure that I had noticed that the slingshots were hard for the younger kids to use. I would keep the rest the same.