The Air Cannon Challenge

We've been busy designing and building air cannons and linking their firing to Newton's laws of motion.

Students were tasked with designing and making their own air cannon/nerf gun. Design questions needed to be asked about the gun barrel length, size and design of paper balls etc. 

Students also needed to do some scientific writing working on their focus question, aim and the hypothesis for their design.Teaching and research was also completed looking at Newton's laws of motion and linking this learning to the action of their air cannon.

Lastly, we shot our cannons and measured the distance fired. Judging was based on performance of each group's cannon and their scientific writing.

Lots of prizes on offer for the top three groups including blue cards, juicies and Banqer bucks.