Hi there, I’ve name changed for this post due to family circumstances that mean I’m very much involved in the life of two of my grandchildren.
Today one of them has come home with a project to be done and I’m completely lost as to what’s needed. It’s to the extent I feel completely defeated and I could sit here and cry at how hopeless I feel.
Im ok with projects on the Romans and Vikings for eg but I’ve no imagination and I need to be able to see the kind of thing we’re supposed to be aiming for. There’s also the fact I’m just too embarrassed to ask the school for clarification, surely if they’re giving these projects to 7/8 year olds it really shouldn’t be beyond me at 66.
This is the brief -
Design and make a model of a futuristic travel machine which they should be able to talk about to the whole class.
Please try to re-use and recycle materials as much as possible.
The children should include a simple lever or linkage in their design, to either extend the wheels from inside the aircraft or a door opening. They will be shown how to do this in school.
My problem is that anything I’ve found on Twinkle for example isn’t a model. It’s let’s say a crocodiles mouth on a piece of A4 paper with a moving part from the lever/linkage. Is that the kind of thing being asked for but aeroplane related? Or is it supposed to be a model aeroplane made out of cardboard/a water bottle/toilet roll tube for eg?
I need to be one step ahead of my grandchild on this, not so I can do the work for them but there is more than likely a specific learning difference going on that complicates things.
Can someone please set this very embarrassed grandma on the right road with the project.
Thank you.