Tantallon engineers and their shelters

Tantallon demonstrated their excellent engineering and team work skills this morning creating brilliant shelters with working Solar Panals and LED lights! 

Well done to them all :-) 

Winners for their sloping shelter to allow the rain to run off and functional door : 

Making Knexions ©

Primary Seven are taking part in the Making Knexions© Emergency Shelter Activity from Young Engineers©. 

Each group (groups are within houses)  must design and build an emergency shelter with solar powered lighting that will protect three people from wind and rain and will provide light in the darkened interior. (We are imagining that people are the size of dolls!)

Available equipment: knex, solar panel, LED panel, electrical wires, nylon cover and clips.

Here are Sienna and Tantallon getting started:

Engineering a shelter - Grange

Engineering an emergency shelter - Lauder

Engineering

Primary 7 Conference Engineering

Sienna are working on the Knex challenge.

Primary 7C Conference Mercy Corps

Tantallon are finding out about how the charity Mercy Corps are working to help with the refugee crisis. 

P7 Conference EJASS

Grange are currently learning about how to record what they have been doing for their Silver JASS awards on an online space. 

Water of Leith Photos 7C