On Wednesday 15th may we got set a task to make a catapault.
This was the equipment for it:
2 elastic bands
1 spoon
1 piece of wood
and 1 small green block
The objective was to use our own design and make a catapault to launch a small green block as far as possible.
The results were that the harder it was to pull the spoon back the more power it gets to rotate forward.
There were different sizes of spoons and different shapes and sizes of wood which made the small green block fling at different paces. Some of the green blocks went straight up in the air and some went way over our heads but there was one that no one could beat, because theirs went all the way into a tree. A lot of us found out that instead of stretching the spoon back you could just simply smack the end of the spoon to fling the green block up and over - although technically, this was cheating!
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