Rāwhiti By The Sea: July 2020

What did you make?

This was a challenge set for students to share their baking on their student blogs...

I decided to make an Italian Apple Cake from the Mediterranean Dish. I've never made a cake before with Olive oil. I did use a good quality Olive oil and the cake was very easy to make. It was very fresh when it came out of the oven. The cake tasted nice and you could have it warm with custard.

Edmonds recipe Cheese Scones...

Alison Holst's Bran Muffins...you can never have too much fibre!

Makey Makey Interactive Matariki Artworks...

A group of students at Rāwhiti School used the 5 senses to inspire their Matariki Interactive Artworks.

We used Scratch to programme the left, right, up, down and space bar of the Makey Makey. Check out the slide deck below!

Matariki Keyrings & Bag tags...

This week I worked with a group of Year 4 to 6 students from Ata Hāpara. Their 50 minute challenge was to design and create a keyring or bag tag inspired by Matariki.

They'd had a few sessions prior exploring Tinkercad. They worked their way through some of the tutorials and learn some basic skills, for example, placing objects and resizing objects.

I created a classroom Tinkercad account and this was really useful expecially when it came to exporting student .stl files from Tinkercad. I used Simplify 3D to prepare the file to print on our Prusa 3D printer.

This was the first time I've put the Prusa through it's paces and it preformed quite well. If there were any issues it was due to the actual design in Tinkercad, for example it wasn't quite flat (0.00) on the workplane.

I'm looking forward to taking more groups for 3D printing...