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SAVE OUR PARK
A unit by Amy Williamson
Your mission is to deign an object that will help protect a ceratin feature within our park, located on the beach front of our local community. On the last page we gained a knowledge and understanding of what the features are in our park. It is now our job to become scientists and investiagte different materials that would be suitable to project that feature and also the phyiscal changes we could make to thise materials to make them suit our purpose.
Investigations
Materials
Plastic
Paper
Crete Paper
Aluminium
Aluminium Foil
Wood
Glass
Metal
Modelling Clay
Ceramic
Fabric
Stone
Rubber
Straw
Brick
Wool
Polystyrene
You will be given a selection of these materials. In small groups explore th materials and their properties as part of your first investigation.
Click the pencil to get your investigation sheet.
Physical Changes
Explore physical changes here......
Explore more changes here. Click on the button!
Investigations
Engage in an investigation where you will make physical changes to different materials. Record your finidings and chnages in your scrapbooks.
You will now conduct your investigations. Use these investigations to inform your choices of materials for your protection object and how you are going to design your object.
List of investigations:
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Investigate strength
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Investigate wetting
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Investigate containing water
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Investigate warming
Click on the question mark to access the investigation sheet you can use for all your investigations.
Design for investigation
After each investigation, draw a design that would help that change
for example, you may like to design a boat when investigating wetting. Consider what material would be suitable for the job and don't forget to label your drawing!
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