Nau mai, haere mai - welcome to Term 2! We've started the term with a Science focus. For the past week we've been creating parachutes which will (hopefully) drop eggs safely to the ground without breaking them. We've put a video together which we're having a bit of trouble uploading, but in the meantime here is a slideshow from Mahalia, Dwayne and Ayaan which explains how to make a parachute...
Egg Parachutes
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ReplyDeleteKia ora R23
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed the idea about making the egg parachute. What I really like about the egg parachute idea is that it takes time and makes you use your hands as well as your head. This reminds me of last year when Ms Kemp made us make catapults. While creating our catapults we had to use our heads and hands to make our crafty new designs.
I only have one problem about your egg parachutes and that is when you were making your presentation on how to make the parachutes. The text colours and the background colours don’t go together and the text is hard to see on some slides. This is something that would be good to fix up for next time.
I am highly anticipating the video that will hopefully be up sometime soon but one question I have is how high did you drop your egg parachutes from?
From Matthew
Hi Room 23
ReplyDeleteI really like the idea of egg parachutes and I look forward to seeing the video. You could try using different shaped parachutes and see what happens.
I wonder if you could make parachutes to carry heavier objects as well, and it would be cool if you could make the parachutes out of other materials.
I would like to do this at home and launch my army soldiers off my deck and see what happens. I wonder what would happen if you use hard boiled eggs?
From Mitchell
Kia ora Ruma 23,
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading about how to create a parachute that drops an egg, but the egg does not break. I would also like to make a parachute myself.
Dwyane, Mahalia and Ayaan’s presentation on egg parachutes was awesome. Also it was a clear description of how the parachute worked. It was good to see that you included pictures through the whole presentation. I can’t wait to see the video. So does the egg break or not?
I wonder if you could use different types of parachutes that still drop an egg and the egg doesn’t break?
Also who made the first parachute and what was it made of?
Thanks for sharing
Molly
Kia ora Mahalia, Dwayne & Ayaan.
ReplyDeleteI really liked the way you presented your slide show, with the slides in rainbow colours.
Have you tried using thin wire instead of string. It can make it stronger and keep its shape.
I like making little parachutes sometimes, but I’m not good at making them fly. I was wondering how many eggs, your egg parachutes are able to hold?
Lakshitha :)
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ReplyDeleteHello room 23
ReplyDeleteI really like your your idea of the of putting a parachute and trying not to break an egg when it comes down 💥.
It looks so so fun. This remind me of the egg and spoon challenge. I will always drop the egg. I can't wait to see if it all worked out and went as planned.
Next time you should try and hold 3 eggs and not break them, that is my challenge for you all and then post that up on the blog. You look like you are having lots of fun thank you for sharing this with us.
Guy
Egg parachutes
ReplyDeleteHello Room 23
Good work Mahalia, Dwayne and Ayaan on the slide show. Have the class looked at the ways people use parachutes around the world and different shapes and sizes? I see that your class is quite into science and agriculture. I would like to see if it works and hopefully dose, without breaking the eggs.
By Kade
Kia ora,Mahalia,Dwayne and Ayaan.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed your slideshow on eggs in parachute It sounds really cool and it kind of reminds me of really parachutes
What would you put the eggs in so they don’t break?
I’m looking forward to seeing those parachutes fly around with eggs in
the parachute somewhere, but make sure the parachute comes back.
From Bradley
Hi there!
ReplyDeleteI really like your egg parachutes, I would like to make an egg parachute as well! In your video, it would be cool to have action music in the background! It reminds me of scrambled eggs mmm.. ( Scrambled eggs would probably what they would become if they
Got shot down ;P. )
Matt
Hi I am looking forward to see your video on the eggs dropping to the ground safely hopefully they won't crack on the ground.
ReplyDeleteI know that eggs are breakable, they crack all the time, when you drop them they break. I know this because I have dropped an egg and it cracked.
I hear that you are having trouble uploading the video I hope that you don't have any more trouble.
I see you made a slide show it was cool maybe next time think about the colors because when I saw the video I couldn't really understand it because it was hard to read in some parts.
From Wil.
Kia ora Room 23
ReplyDeleteIt was a really cool idea to make the egg parachutes. It was good to see that the slide show had all the info on what you needed and how to make the egg parachutes. The only thing you could do better next time with the slideshow was the background colours did not work because it was to dark.
I can remember when I made a parachute for my brother’s toy man and that took about 4 hours . How long did it take for the class to make the egg?
Do you think you could hold more eggs in this parachutes if you do could you put up a video on the blog about it?
From Connor
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ReplyDeleteKia Ora Room 23
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading how to make a parachute for an egg, Hopefully Room One has time to try this out. Next thing to improve is to make a video of testing the parachute. This remembered me of a video on youtube when people dropped an egg in a plastic ball filled with popcorn. How it works is when it hits the ground the popcorn absorbs the energy to all the points.
Link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsnyl8llfH4
Lochie
Kia Ora Mahalia, Dwayne and Ayaan
ReplyDeleteI really liked how you used your knowledge to find another way to share your learning with us. I loved how you shared your instructional work on a slideshow showing us how to make a parachute, to safely carry an egg across a certain area.
If the parachute was bigger and was let go in a higher place could it possibly carry more than 1 egg in a bigger box?? The parachute looked like a group project. A challenge for you could be to see how much the parachute could go with 2 eggs in it.
At Karoro School we have done a project like that except we did not have a box to carry. We were seeing how far a lantern would get with just fire to make it float. We succeeded in this project and I hope you can get your guys video up for us to see.
I love the instructional slideshow because it was very clear and specific of how to make a parachute which carries the eggs. I have seen this structure in a movie that I have watched.
This was very cool to see another school’s learning from internet
Madison
Dear Room 23
ReplyDeleteI love your work you have done on eggs and what smart ideas you can use to stop them from cracking. I find it fascinating that you decided to use parachutes as a safe way for eggs to land instead of them splating everywhere.
It’s cool that you decided to show people how to create their own parachutes by using the tips you gave them. Next time you could a way to direct the parachutes to anywhere you want while trying to keep the egg safe.
From Aedan
Kia ora
ReplyDeleteI am looking forward to seeing your video of your parachute eggs. Landing on the ground hopefully the parachute can hold the egg from cracking up against the ground.
I really enjoyed reading about the egg parachutes and I seen the slide show and it. Was really good and I heard that you were also having trouble uploading the video hopefully it works.
You also had all the good steps to make a parachute and it looked good at the end and you also. Knowing how to make the parachute your parachutes are good but will it hold a egg from breaking? I have seen an egg break because I have broken tons of eggs, it’s like a challenge but it doesn't break.
By Ryan
Kia Ora Rm23
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your idea about the egg parachute. Using plastic as your parachute is a good idea, along with a strong box to hold the egg in. I look forward to seeing the video of yours dropping the egg, What height is the egg going to be dropped from? The egg parachute reminds me of when my brother used to play with his little army men with parachutes and he used to chuck them out the window. If it did work, would you be able to put more eggs in the box? I would like to try your egg parachute idea someday.
From Ben
Kia ora Room 23.
ReplyDeleteGreat work on making the egg parachutes. I thought it was a really cool idea to make egg parachutes. The slideshow you made was really cool way to present it because it had all the information and gear you needed know to make them.
I am really looking forward to seeing a video of the eggs dropping to the ground safely and hopefully landing uncracked. Also I would like to know how high could you dropped the eggs from and make them still land safely?
BY REUBEN
Hi there Mahalia, Dwayne and Ayaan!
ReplyDeleteI really like your egg parachutes, I would like to make an egg parachute as well!
In your video, it would be cool to have action music in the background! It reminds me of scrambled eggs mmm.. ( Scrambled eggs would probably be what they would become if they
Got shot down :P. )
It also reminds me of the egg spoon challenge. You could work another strategy to put together the parachute and maybe put some cool patterns on the egg and/or parachute.
Matt
Kia ora room 23
ReplyDeleteDid you enjoy?
I really like the way that you made a presentation showing how you did it
I really like the way you have followed the instructions on your WALT
Hey Room 23 It’s Ben from Galilee.
ReplyDeleteThe egg parachutes look amazing and fun, and I love the way that you guys put thought and effort into this and made a step by step guide on how to make the parachutes.
Maybe you could add some photos of them because I enjoy them.