SLJ (W5/A45): Kick Start It's a Balancing Act

 LI: To learn more about balancing and create a tower that showcases your skills.

The above picture is the ninth task for this week of the Summer Learning Journey that I have completed today. For this Kick Start activity I started by watching the introduction video that explained the challenge, which was to learn about balancing and show an example of the tower I have created. For this activity, I started by watching the recommended video from which I learnt many tips and some of them were to use a flat or hard surface and avoid the carpet area as it would help to build a firm base. It also said to use materials of the same size and to make the design more stable it should have a broad start because it makes a much more stronger base and an example that best suits is a triangle or pyramids. The scientific reason is that the weight of the tower spreads out between the broad base instead of just being on one block. After watching the video and understanding the facts I created my tower. I couldn't find rock or pebbles so I decided to use the Jenga blocks I had at home. I followed the tips but to make the task a little more trickier I decided to put the weight of the design on one single block. Even though it was making my tower fall it was much more fun. I loved completing this task and I am looking forward to do the second part of this task as well.