Design and Technology

 

During Term 1 and Term 2, we have been looking at house designs and why houses may be built differently in different environments, depending on the conditions.

 

Students chose a natural disaster and then discussed the types of materials that these houses would need to be made from. They drew a house design, the steps they would need to take to build the house, and then a list of materials to be bought from home. 

 

This week, we began making our houses in class. We had to think about the best way to join materials, how to reinforce parts of our house and make changes when things didn't work. 

 

Next week, we hope to test our houses in our chosen natural disaster conditions. 

Will they hold up to a cyclone, flood, storm or tsunami?