Ramparts | War

This week for inquiry we have been learning about fortification. We started off playing a game and in the game was a piece of paper with even squares in it. In this game there would be defenders and attackers. The attackers would have to try and get the gold off the defenders and the defenders had to keep the treasure safe. The next game we played was like the last one except there was a river and a bridge. In this game we would have to defend the gold like the last game. It was easier for the defenders because three could line up in front of the bridge and one attacker could only get on the bridge. We learnt that fortification is a type of technology that helped people in warfare. This week we had to make a DLO explaining either a trench, hill fort or ramparts. We chose ramparts because is was the hardest one and I wanted to create a goal. In our DLO we had to have 5 slides. In our 5 slides we had the title, the technology we used and example, the question of what is a rampart with the answer, the things that connect to a rampart and the purpose of a rampart.