This week for inquiry we had to make a tunnel. The things that we needed to make a tunnel was straws, spaghetti sticks, tape, scissors and rubber bands.
The first thing we had to do was get split into groups of four. When we got into groups of four we had to decide as a group how much things we needed. When we came up with an Idea we had to draw what we were imaging what it would look like. When we finished doing that we went to show the teacher so that she could give us the material. When we got the material we had to think of what it would look like. What we first came up was rubber band the spaghetti sticks.
Then when we came up with a better one we went with it. The first thing that we started on was the road. We built the road with straws. We also had to measure it the size of the tray. Our one was a bit long but then we cut it. The next thing we did was make a tunnel with straws. It wasn't really like a tunnel but it was like a square. After that we started to use the spaghetti sticks so we un tied the rubber bands of the spaghetti sticks. Later when we finished we got someone out the group to hold the spaghetti so that we could tape it. We had to use a lot of tape. The straws kept on going down because the spaghetti sticks kept on putting weight on it. Next we had to wrap around Cling Wrap so that the sand wouldn't go inside of the tunnel. We also had to but the ferrari in the tunnel so that we had to see if it was going to fit in the tunnel. When we finished we had to fill it with sand and see if it would survive. It failed completely. The only thing that we had to do was do more straws so that it could be more stable.
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