Recycled Village

So far, our village has started. We are also making a Christmas time village so it will be snowy and with Christmas trees. We need more yogurt cartons for houses. We are going to bring cotton fiber for the snow on the ground. Next week, we are going to build a wind mill out of a 1 liter soda bottle and 1 foot wooden stake. Also, we are going to bring in pizza tables for picnic tables in the park. Angela made snow flakes out of cotton balls. We will also make a forest with Popsicle stick trees.

Next week, I am going to build a windmill. We are going to put the snowballs Angela made into plastic spoons used as blades for the windmill. Also, we are going to use a motor to make a fan to blow the windmill.

Even though we are not making a project that was assigned before, we are allowed to enter

this project because we are using a motor from the motorized challenge.

By Anya and Angela

Team Wind

Anya, Angela, and I are going to make a miniature city out of cardboard, plastic, bottles, yogurt cartons, and water. We are hoping to make a small windmill that can spin by making a fan to blow air and houses out of yogurt cartoons. We will also make little trees, bushes and other figures like humans out of cardboard. We also hope to make a stream with real water. We will add pizza tables as picnic tables in the cardboard made park.

We are doing this project because we have been doing the Design Squad Challenges for the past year and this is one of the challenges. This challenge is where you take one of the challenges from the before and make it over sized.

Our class got connected to the Design Squad by meeting Adam and Judy who work for the Design Squad. The have designed real cars and built electric dresses. Adam and Judy came to our school so we could interview them.

Anya is going to build the windmill, Angela will make the trees, bushes, and picnic tables, and I will create the houses.

By: Angela V. and Faryn D.

Anya's, Angela's, and Faryn's Windmill

This is a video on how we are going to build a windmill for our village.

First, we need to buy supplies for the windmill: a wooden stake, a hammer, a plastic water bottle, and a drill and 3 nails. Then, we need to cut off the bottom of the water bottle. Next, you cut off the bumps on the bottom of the water bottle, which makes the blades. Then, you drill a hole in the middle of the blade. After that, you cut a piece of plastic off a water bottle. You nail the piece of plastic onto the stake, and then nail the blade to the piece of plastic.

Fin