The learning pit and technology challenges.

Hi guys and welcome back to term FOUR!!! I know right this year has gone really fast. I haven't been blogging very much mostly because my holiday was amazing but that would be on another blog post..... Anyway this term we are learning about.. wait for it..... Evolution. We watched a video about the learning pit in class on the third day of term 4. 

The Learning Pit: 

The learning pit is a place where all of us have been. You don’t literally go in it, it’s just a metaphor. You go in the learning pit when you challenge yourself with something and it doesn’t exactly go as plan. You go deep down in the learning pit and you have to try and get out the other side. After you have finished you have a 'EUREKA' moment. In Greek  'Eureka' means I found it.

The balloon powered car:

The first technology challenge was the balloon powered car. That was a really hard challenge because we had no instructions but we had a piece of paper with the materials we could use. I was in a group with Emma, Isabella, Holly and Tiaki. After about 45 minutes all the cars had a race to see which ones worked and which ones were going to the finals. In the first round only 2 cars raced at a time and the car that went the furtherest won and would go straight to the final. When it was our turn to race our car against another team, the car didn't even make it across the start line. I wasn't that disappointed that we lost because 2 people in our team did everything and didn't let anyone else do anything and then they blamed us for not doing anything. I thought that was completely unfair and I was not very happy. I didn't have a 'EUREKA' moment when we finished our car because I wasn't very proud of it.

The paper challenge:

We got into the same groups as last time. This time we had a live model of what we had to make and materials like paper and scissors. Miss G said that we also had to document when we were in the learning pit, what we were saying and what we were feeling. I thought that this challenge was a lot easier then the other challenge. But once again one person in our group started lecturing us that Emma and I weren't doing anything and that we should start helping our group and when Emma said that technically we were doing the documentary, but then she went quiet. In the end all of my group had a 'EUREKA' moment because we finished our paper thing and Mr R said that it looked like the twin of the one Miss G made,which was the model. Overall I was really happy! 

Thanks for reading my blog post. Bye!!