Our Year 8s Build a Cardboard City!
Our Year 8s Build a Cardboard City!
November 29, 2018 at 1:40 PM
Tall, connected, stepped, curved, arched, segmented…awesome!
Building a Cardboard City is one of the enduring activities that our Year 8 students enjoy during Home Centre Challenge Week. Encouraged to push the boundaries, the students were briefed to create original structures inspired by ‘Caine’s Arcade’ – A nine-year-old American who spent his summer vacation building an elaborate DIY cardboard game arcade inside his dad’s used auto parts store.
The students worked collaboratively using tape, string and corrugated card to bring their ideas alive, creating tall towers and interesting structures. On day one, the first group had to create structures that were ‘tall’ and ‘connected’, on day two, the second group had to work around the words, ‘stepped’ and ‘curved’, by the third day, the students were creating ‘arched’ and ‘segmented’ structures, and on day four, they were building ‘blocks’ and ‘intersected’ pieces. They worked together developing their communication skills, team work, problem solving skills, trust and strategic thinking to create a visually appealing ‘city’.
As a part of the activity, the students were unable to use colour, meaning they had to add detail to their structures by cutting the cardboard into different shapes and sizes.
Student, Aimee Watson said she had a great time, ‘But it was challenging using a restricted amount of resources.’ Her group created a structure inspired by the London Bridge that had a bridge that would lift up and down.
By the end of the four days, the ‘city’ was built, and no matter how well their structures turned out, everyone enjoyed themselves and were proud of their creations!
