For term 3 the year 7’s and I have science. On the first day we met our teacher. She was really kind and her name was Ms Ikiua. During the first block she explained to us what we were going to be doing. She told us that we were going to have to make a tower out of 20 pieces of dry spaghetti, 1 meter of cello-tape and 1 marshmallow. We watched a video of some of the tallest towers in the world from the early years to the most recent towers built so we could get some inspiration and some ideas of the structures the towers used to support it. she gave us all a blank piece of paper to plan out what our layout would be. While we were planning she prepared the dry spaghetti, cello-tape and marshmallows so we didn’t waste time. Luckily we were able to feel the spaghetti. It felt really thin and was really easy to break but the smaller the spaghetti the harder it was to break.
Around 9:30 we started constructing. Something I found strange is that we all used triangles for our base. Some of us went for height and some of us went for stability. For my tower I tried to make a house like shape and start working my way up but connecting the dry spaghetti together was harder than I thought it would be. One of my classmates started off with a really small triangle making her tower more stable and easy to pick up and move around while my classmate focused on height. Even though his one was tall his tower was struggling to hold up and stay together.
Once the 15 minutes were up we put everything we were holding on the table. Ms Ikiua asked us if it was okay if we could show each other our strategy and what we did. Explaining what I had built made me a bit embarrassed as I didn’t accomplish what I was expecting but in the end everyone came out with a different strategy which made me realize that mine was not bad because it was my first time and everyone’s building would be different in the end which made everyone’s building unique.
