Catapults

Room 8 making Catapults

During the week Room 8 was given the chance to create catapults as a part of their science/technology build up.

The class was grouped into threes and fours and where given a set amount of equipment to make catapults. They were given:

- Black A2 paper
- 1 meter of cellotape
- Scissors
- Blu Tac
- Pins
- Straws
- Rubber Bands.

There were some very interesting designs created and some of our catapults were very successful and others were not so successful.

A lot of new skills and ideas about catapults were learnt. We has a wrap up chat about how this could relate back to our inquiry questions of "How would life be different if?" We decided that a catapult could help us to get place in a short distance quickly or over something that we could not jump on our own.