Walls

This week for inquiry we have been researching and finding information about different types o of defending walls that you use in war. We had to research about four different types of walls which were the sand, stone wall, the rammed earth wall, the stone wall and the palisade wall. We had to get into a group of four and research about these different types of walls. In my group there was Farzana, me , Sakina and Victoria. We decided to all research on one each. Farzana researched about the sand and stone wall, Victoria researched about the rammed earth wall, I researched about the stone wall and Sakina researched about the palisade. After that we had to go and show our work to Mr Wong, but before we showed our work to Mr Wong we had to decide which one we were going to build,m we had to think about it because the only materials we could use was sand rocks toothpicks and a little bit of water. 

The next thing we did was build our wall. All the groups had to build a castle wall and then pick there own one for the next one. We picked a palisade because it was a interesting topic to learn about. After we finished building our walls we had to use the catapult that Mr Wong had built using pencils and elastic bands to try bust the castle down. Mr Wong went write down through the groups. Our one succeeded when he had fired at the toothpicks and then after he went around everyone's first one that they built and then started at the start and went around again, the second one of ours succeeded so that was good and then we packed up and put the sand back into the sand pit.