Unfortunately, Mr Marston forgot to prepare shelter for all the adults attending camp. Rather than letting the adults get cold, wet and grumpy, the children's project was to research shape and design the perfect structure for the homeless adults!
First, the structure needed to be strong, so we looked at various shaped prisms and explored their strength under pressure and wind.
We explored the number of vertices, edges and faces to see if this was important in providing strength to the structure. What do you notice is the most common shape?
The Hamden Street Outdoors shop then opened, and with a strict budget the teams were challenged to assemble their structure, to support 3 'adults', and with stand the elements!
Although we were learning about properties of shape in our structures, and addition and subtraction with our camp shop, we soon realised that we had used many of the school values in the teamwork and discussion that went on throughout the process.
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