Types of Submarine

Monday (28/03/2011) a) Video clip • We watched a video clip on submarine. This sub was a holiday cruise, a small one. We saw the customers placing their belogings on top of the submarine. Then, it sank into the ocean and customers watched the ocean animals through its window. • The second clip showed a military submarine carrying their marines or sailors to protect their country. b) Books. • The school bought 2 new books on sub. There are 2 types. One that carry people while another performs like a robot underwater. • The first submarine had o engines and they could be in the ocean oly for a few hours. Today’s sub ca stay for moths ad carry as may as 150 people. • These subs sometimes are used for military purpose to protect their countries from pirates ad enemies. I didn’t go very detail with kids on this. The other type is for research purpose. • The robot submarine that has o people on board carry a lot of computer device so as to send their data collection such as photographs via satellite to the scietiest at their sciece lab or ational Science Cetre. • The kids asked the meaning of submarine ad Tzen Yu said it floats outside the Earth. • Chu Kit is so impressed with the robotic submarine and wished he could have one.  c) Submarine Continuation (Part 3) • We were brainstorming to make the box solid so as not to fall. Now, it can’t even stand by itself. Thus, how can it accommodate the kids as explorers. • Qian Joe said add some steel to it, Zhe Qing said, we can hold with our hands, Shawn said we can all put our heads together to hold up the box surface from inside….haaaa! But, how can we move freely then? • Finally, Kwong Yog said we should fold oe of the box side and yes…..it works! Brilliant! • The kids started sitting on the sub. d) Decorating the submarine. • We talked about decoratios. We want to learn various ways of decorating. Okay……the kids said they wanted to darw ocean aimals ad paste oto the submarine. So they started sketching cute preety pictures ad lear to paste with glue. • Meawhile, Chu Kit and Yun Xin assisted at pasting the small box onto the sub body. This will be the tower. Its not easy to attach but team work does help!