This week we have been working on a design and technology project using the TASC wheel. The children have had to use their problem solving skills to help save an explorer who had become stranded on a desert island.

Firstly we shared our ideas on the thinking floor mat. We decided that the best idea would be to build a raft for the explorer so he could sail off the island.
We generated some design ideas by thinking about which materials would work best and looking at examples of different rafts.After that we picked our best design idea and built our own models.

We tested all the models in water to see if they would float, which nearly all of them did. It was very exciting!
Finally we evaluated how we had done by saying what was good about our raft and what we could do to improve it.