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Wallace and Gromit

Wallace and Gromit are great inventors.

Check out these short video clips

Open a Word document and complete the following.

1. Name four inventions that Wallace and Gromit made?
2. Choose one of the inventions that didn’t work and describe what went wrong?

Harry Houdini – Harry Potter

What an inventor!

Boy did some crazy inventions take place at Hogwarts!

Click here to play one of Harry Potter’s favourite games Quidditch

Out of this world

Do you enjoy creative writing?

1. Open a Word document. Describe to an alien how something works (for example a toothbrush).
2. Design a time travel machine or an alien’s space travel craft.

Send it in to ed@tki.org.nz

Everlasting

What would be the implications (effects) of inventing an everlasting thing?

1. Click here (Word 28KB) to open this printable Word doc.
2. Think of the good, the bad, and the interesting things about this and fill in the PMI table. ( Plus, minus and interesting)

Send it in to ed@tki.org.nz

Future-tripping

Think about robots then tune in to the future.

1. Open a Word document.
2. Brainstorm a story plan.
3. Create an imaginary story about how robots will be used in the future.

Home design challenge

Global warming weather patterns are causing more extreme weather conditions. How might you design a better home to prevent the damage occurring in a tsunami, flood, hurricane, or an earthquake?

1. Design a home that uses alternate energy sources like solar energy or maybe involves underground construction to save heating energy.
2. Create a bird’s eye view, and a side view on to a Word document

Investigate

New Zealanders are known for being innovative and great inventors.

Do your own research to find out three famous Kiwi inventors.

1. Choose one of the following famous Kiwi Inventors
   • Lord Ernest Rutherford
   • Colin Murdoch
   • Burt Munro
2. Read about them.
3. Open a Word document and copy and paste relevant information from the webpage under the following headings:
   • What are they famous for?
   • How they achieved their invention?
   • A brief description of their background.
4. Reword the information in your own words.
5. Present your information with an interesting heading and border.

Puzzling invention

Click here (Word 38KB) to go to the Word find template.

1. Print off a copy.
2. Some words have been done for you. Can you add your own words about inventions?
3. Fill in the spaces with any letters.
4. Give it to a friend to do.

Rocket launch

Design your own rocket.

Click here rocket to print out a template from the Otago museum.

1. Cut out the spaceship.
2. Staple or glue it together.
3. Glue on the side fins.
4. Put a balloon inside the space ship.
5. Blow up the balloon and watch it take off.

Te hāngi ōneherā me te hāngi ōnāianei

1. Tirohia tēnei pikitia (Word 120KB) o te hāngi tawhito , o te umu tawhito rānei. Whakatāruatia te pikitia, ā, whakaingoatia hoki ia wāhanga o te hāngi ki ōu ake whakaaro.
2. Tirohia ngā pikitia ki tēnei whārangi kia kite ai ngā tikanga tawhito mō te mahi hāngi e whakamahi ana i ētehi rauemi hou.
3. Tuhia ki te tūtohi (Word Document 23KB) nei. Tuhia ki a rua ngā rauemi hou mō te hāngi hei whakamahi kē atu i ngā mea tawhito.

Pakanga awakeri

Nā te Māori i tenea te pakanga awakeri o roto o Aotearoa nei, ā, whai muri i tērā ka whakamahia te pakanga awakeri i te pakanga tuatahi me te pakanga tuarua o te ao.

1. Tākarohia te kēmu ‘Hangaia he Pā’ kia kite ai ngā tenea ngāwari noa iho i whakaora ai i ngā hapū me ngā iwi Māori i roto i ngā pakanga o Aotearoa.
2. Huakina te tūtohi (Word 33KB) e pā ana ki te kēmu ‘Hangaia he Pā’. Whakakīkīngia te tūtohi.
3. Tukua tō tūtohi ki a ed@tki.org.nz

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