Our Catapult Project

Our Catapult Project

This week we have been learning how to build a catapult to launch onto our roller coaster.  We watched Youtube videos on how to build a catapult using popsicle sticks. Then we did some reading tasks. We learnt that catapults are ancient weapons created to throw projectiles further than a person could by themselves. These weapons work like levers with the base acting as the fulcrum for the arm to pivot off of. You can make a small version of a catapult using many common household items. This is a fun science and engineering project for kids of all ages to understand simple machines. 

For reading, we also learnt how to visualise by using Drawings on the computer. We completed an image of our catapult.

For our maths task, some of us used repeated addition while others used their knowledge of basic facts.

 Our Reading Task

For writing, we needed to complete an explanation writing on how we were going to build a catapult.