Week 8: Storybook Presentation (Part 3) & Paper Tower

Storybook Presentation

 

 

Our group presented the storybook in front of the class. We told them about our story. So, below was our completed storybook.

 

 

 

This was the cover page. The title of our storybook was 'Who Did It?'. We chose this title because our story had a suspense plot. We wanted to engage the readers to guess who the culprit was in our story.

 

 

 

This was the first page. It all started with a girl named Siew Kei who came from a 'Wonderous Land' across the sea.

As soon as she arrived in Singapore, she saw a girl eating an ice cream.

 

She wanted to eat ice cream too but she did not have money. So, she hid behind a potted plant and wept.

 

Suddenly, a cloud formed above her head and fairy god mother appeared.

 

 

 

 Instead of giving her 3 wishes, fairy god mother gave her 3 objects: phone, shoes and watch.

 

 

 

 

Fairy god mother then led her to 'fountain of wealth'.

 

  

 

After she drank from the 'fountain of wealth', she fell asleep on the 'red chair of fatigue'.

Then she dreamt of her friends from across the sea. Their names were Sy and Hao. Let's see how the story goes!

 

 

 

When she was awake, she realised that she became a ghost.

 

She tried to recall that she had met 3 suspicious looking people on that day. They were a security guard, a girl with tattoo and a man.

 

 

 

Then she called fairy god mother with her magic phone. Fairy god mother picked up the emergency telephone.

 

 

 

Siew Kei explained the situation. Fairy god mother replied and said that if Siew Kei found out who killed her by 12 midnight, she would come alive again.

 

The magic watch showed that it was already 12 midnight. So, 'WHO DID IT?'

 

 

 

Paper Tower   After the presentation, we were divided into new groups. Then, we were given a new task. We were to build a freestanding structure made of only paper and were to build it as tall as possible. We couldn't use glue, stickers, or any adhesive but could only use magazine papers given to us.  

So, we used only scissors and cutter to help us cut the magazine papers.

 

 

 

First 15 minutes, we discussed about our building strategy. All of us threw in ideas onto the rough paper.

 

 

After much consideration, we agreed to choose this building strategy. We were given limited numbers of magazine papers. So, we cut each of them into two. Then, we rolled the magazine papers into tube shapes. To make the tube structure stay, we folded the top and bottom part of the paper and we tucked one side to another side. After all the tube structures were created, we stacked them according to the above building strategy. However, it didn't work well. It could stand but was not stable. 

 

 

We realised that our building strategy had weak base. So, we made little changes to make it work. We created tube structures in different diameters. Three tubes with larger diameters were put below as the supporting base. Then, two tubes with large diameters were put on the second level. Another two tubes with medium diameters were put on the third level. One tube with smaller diameters were put on the fourth level.

 

 

 

No to forget that on top of every tube, we placed a flat square paper to cover the hole so that another tube could be placed on top of it.

 

 

We wanted to design our free standing structure creatively, so we made a roof . We folded the paper into this shape above.

 

To make the roof slightly taller, we added this 3D-square-shape paper structure on top of the roof. We created it by slotting method.

 

This was the process of placing the roof on top of the tube on the fourth level. We had to be extra careful not to make the building collapse.

 

 

 

 

This was how our roof looked like.

 

 

 

After we were done, we had to test our building's stability by poking it a few times.

 

 

 

Yeay! Our tower passed the test. This was because our base was strong enough to support the height of the tower.

 

 

 

This was a picture of us with our tower. We were satisfied with it. It looked like a lighthouse. We were able to build this tower because of our good teamwork. Each of us contributed ideas for the planning and all of us did work for the building of the tower. What I could have done differently for our teamwork was that we really put more effort into the planning process by putting into considerations the stability of the building and the methods in transforming the sketched shape into 3D structure. Hence, we could have saved more time and effort.

 

 

 

Then, I walked around to look at other groups' buildings.

 

 

Every group has different methods in building their towers. This group combined tube and prism structures. They mainly used slotting method.

 

 

 

This group had a very unique tower. They also used slotting method. But they didn't use tube structure but other shapes.

 

 

 

This group was very enthusiastic. Their building had collapsed once. So, this was their second trial and it worked well.

In conclusion, I think that the different ways I could have built my tower is to use slotting method for creating the structures. Besides that, I could build more interesting shapes other than tube shape for the tower and play around with the different ways of stacking the structures. There is a way to make my tower taller. Instead of making a roof, I should have create a stick using the paper I use for the roof. Stick would add more height to the tower.