Tag: Maths

Sundial – Step it Up

I made my own sundial by using a paper plate, blue tack and a lolly stick from the ice block I had just eaten.   I had to wait till the next day to place it in the sun as it was not sunny the day I made it.  I placed it in the sun at 9am and marked it every hour until 3pm.  It was not easy as it turned out to be a cloudy day.  This is my completed sun dial with the marks on every hour.  I am going to make one out of metal with my Dad that I can leave outside in the garden as I think they are really cool.

Laser Maze – Step it up

Here is my laser maze activity. I used streamers for the lasers as they are delicate so if you touch them too much they would snap. Here is me trying it out and trying to get to the other end.  It was not easy as it was very windy and I had to modify it a bit from the picture on the Kick Start.

 

The Human Sundial – Kick Start

For today’s task I had to make a human Sundial.   you make a human Sundial by standing in the same position each time and having someone else draw around you.

My two Interesting facts are linked to my sundial….

Interesting fact 1:  in the middle of the day when I did my sundial the sun was in the centre of the sky this means that the shadows that are formed from the sun are very small but really dark in colour.  From 2 pm the shadow will begin to grow long and less dark this explain the large gap in my human sun dial from 2-3 pm as I went thinner.

Interesting fact 2: I never knew this until after I did my son dial  but the  human Sundial works by having your arm up in the air as this represents the time on my sundial you could use the top of my head to work out the time.

Here is my sundial I was only able to do it from 1 pm till 3 pm as it got to cloudy and the sun vanished.

Cipher and Codes – Kick Start

Cipher and Codes Kick Start was a really fun activity.  I had to read through the slides attached and use codes to decrypt the encrypted messages.   I then had to create my own message using ‘pig pen’ or ‘Atabash’.  I decided to do one of each, I hope you have fun decrypting my  two favourite places to go in summer.

I found atabash a lot  easier to use to encrypt and decrypt.  Pig pen was a lot harder for me to understand to start with but once I got the hang of it it was fun too.

I really liked how the slides not only had things written but also had the option to listen to each slide.  This was really helpful when it came to new words that I have never seen before.