Hi, last week in Te Ngahere we did a Great Marble Challenge. The Great marble Challenge is when we build ramps trying to get a marble to stop 110cm away from the end of the ramp. Also we had to write instructions on how to build our ramp because someone else would be testing our ramp. What was something your group did well? Something that my group and I did well was building a ramp. Talking about our ramp and coming up with lots of ideas. What is something you could have done better?
We could have made our instructions more specific and made our structure more stable so it doesn’t break as easily as it does and maybe we could change the angle so it doesn’t go as far as it did.
How many points did you get?We got 0 points! Why do you think your ramp was or was not successful? Why? Why not?
Our group was not successful because the ramp broke, also our instructions were not as clear as all the other ramps instructions.How clear were your instructions? What was something you explained well? What was something that needed to be clearer?
Our instructions were not clear at all. We think that we need to improve the first step because it was using the same word too much and didn’t really make sense. If you had an opportunity to design a new ramp. What would you change? Improve?
What we could improve on with our instructions is be more clear and also explain how to build our ramp. We should also get someone else to test our instruction next time. What we could improve on is making our ramp stable because it broke on test day.
Have you done this before?
