Pirate Challenge 8: Walk the plank...
Created by Emily @nzquirkymama
Home-Schooler, Canterbury,
New Zealand.
Swashbuckling thanks rolling down the decks!
Challenge:
Can you build a plank that is cantilevered
off the edge of a ship?
How many stones, nuts or counters
can rest on your plank before it capsizes your ship?
Where will you put your Pirate Flag?
Where will you put your Pirate Flag?
You have 20 minutes!
Supplies:
·
6x skewers, sticks or
paddle-pop sticks (you may not need them all)
·
6x marshmellows, blobs of blue
tak or play dough
Newspaper
Cardboard for
your plank
Wool or string
Nuts, counters or stones to
test your plank
Definition of cantilever:
A cantilever is
a beam anchored
at only one end. The beam carries the load to the support where it is forced
against by a moment and shear stress.[1] Cantilever
construction allows for overhanging structures without external bracing.
Cantilevers can also be constructed with trusses or slabs.
(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantilever on Tuesday 23
September 2014, at 11.30am)
After the
challenge:
1. What was tricky about the challenge?
1. What was tricky about the challenge?
2.
What would
you do differently next time?
3.
Where is
the math in this Pirate Challenge?
4. Who or what influenced or inspired your ideas?
Click here to contribute your reflections / thinking to a google from. Check out other buccaneers reflections!
4. Who or what influenced or inspired your ideas?
Click here to contribute your reflections / thinking to a google from. Check out other buccaneers reflections!
The ACTION
2015
The ACTION
2014
@tazcopland Hawea Flat School
First Attempt
Second Attempt
@knuicurious Year 4,5,6 Koraunui School
First Attempt
