cardboard toy: write up
Most of the questions I asked my first grader, Oliver, had an answer that had to do with soccer; he plays soccer in his free time, he wants to become a professional soccer player when he grows up and his favorite sport is, (obviously) soccer. So I decided that I’d want to make my toy revolve around soccer. I couldn’t make just a soccer ball because that didn't meet the requirements of of 5 shapes. So I chose to make a soccer trophy.
The most difficult thing was 100% the soccer ball itself. In fact, I actually made it 3 times. The first time, the cardboard was wobbly and bent, and there were a bunch of holes and way too much glue sticking out. The second time it was so small and there were still holes, which sucked because the cardboard looked really nice. The third time around I decided that because each time I made it there were always holes somewhere, I would take more time of cutting out the pentagons/hexagons so all sides were even and would match up nicely when I put it together. So I did, and it ended up having very little small holes. I learned more about volume because before this project, I didn’t know much about how to find it. I knew about area, but I never really learned volume. The difference between surface area and volume and is that volume is the number of cubic units that make up a solid figure whereas area is the sum of all the faces on the figure. |
oliver, 1st grade |