Basketball STEM activity

Last week's STEM activity was to design and make a tower to hold a basketball for 20 seconds. The only materials the groups were allowed to use were newspaper and masking tape. There were extra points for the height of the tower.

This proved quite a challenge to build something strong enough to hold a heavy basketball. Well done to the 3 groups who managed to construct a tower that could hold the basketball for at least 20 seconds. Big congratulations to Logan, Lochie and Kade for having the tallest tower by 1cm.

Sports Activator - Athletics

Last Tuesday Room 7 had our first Sports Activator session for the year with Gemma. It was great to have Gemma teaching us some athletics skills. We covered a lot of activities from high jump to sprints, to long jump and shot put. Room 7 focused on some techniques for each activity. For high jump we focused on our take off from the floor, at shot put it was about the strength and using our legs to get power in our shot, we practiced the correct style for running through some drills.

Check out our photos to see us in action.

The beginning of 2018!

Well another year has started and what a busy few weeks it has been. We have been very busy practicing for our athletics and swimming events. We know all the practices will pay off when we have our athletics day this Friday (23rd Feb) and our swimming sports day (15th March).

 





This week we welcomed Ari-Elle to Room 7. Ari-Elle and her family have moved to Lawrence from Auckland. We hope she enjoys her time at LAS.

Last week we did a science experiment that involved mixing cornflour,water and food colouring together to see what would happen. Each student wrote down their hypothesis, what they think was going to happen, and after the experiment we discussed who's hypothesis was correct. 

On Wednesday and Thursday afternoons this week we participated in a STEM activity in groups. STEM stands for; science, technology, engineering and maths. This week's challenge was to use a range of materials to make an aircraft that will fly the furtherest. The materials that were available to groups were: 6 straws, 6 pieces of A4 paper, 2 paper clips, 1 metre of cellotape, some blu-tack. All groups had to use the 6 straws but the other equipment was optional to use. 

The winning group's plane flew over 4 metres. Check out the photo of the distances thrown for each group.