On Wednesday this week, it was the 3rd day of engineering! At first, Whaea Ruth showed us a video all about some information about how engineering works, specifically civil engineering. Later on Whaea Ruth gave us the instructions to take off our shoes and socks and get into groups of 3 or 4. It was very exciting considering that she was holding a bucket of water, and said that we would get wet in the process.
How to play: All we needed was a normal bucket, and a bucket with a hole at the bottom. The process of the game was to tip the water in the bucket (with the hole at the bottom) and reach your destination and go back, trying your hardest to not make the water spill. Then when you are finished, the next person goes to do the same. All of us would have to take turns holding the bucket and running to the destination and back using with lots of teamwork. The objective was for your team to have the most water in the bucket. And you can check by pouring the water into the normal bucket and see what number it is based on the measuring.
I was in a group with Maiya, Ruth and Myself. I thought this was very difficult considering that we took a long time before figuring out that we had to work together to cover the hole at the bottom. And we spilled LOTS of water in the process while getting wet at the same time!
The second activity was to build a small sustainable stucture using cardboard, paper, scissors, clay, sticks and straws. That can endure climate changes, almost like the climate changes in Venice.
Our group decided to make a sustainable building that has straws representing pillars or wood the can hold up our structure which was placed like the corners of a square. This was made so that when water rises, it can just go beneath our area. Then we decided to stick on a peice of square paper onto the top of the sticks it for the base, and more sticks on the sides for decorations.
I thought these activity was very fun especially when we had the opportunity to work together.
This is what ours looked like in the process of making a sustainable building, and our bucket activity as well.
