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Building Silos
This rich task from Cre8ate offers pupils the opportunity to develop their personal learning and thinking skills. It involves using recycled materials to construct a scale model of a silo and is well suited to group work. The task can be extended for more able students by investigating the resizing of their model to accommodate an increased capacity. Topics covered by this task include scale, ratio, measurement, volume of cylinders, unit conversions, graphs and substitution into formulae.
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Making a model (activity sheet) 273.39 KB
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Building silos (teachers' notes) 427.1 KB
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Building silos package download 572.64 KB