Personal Investigations

Q Zealanders carry out a Personal Investigation each term for their homefun. Here are some of the interesting topics we have chosen this year:

• Rocket making


• Icecream designing


• Kitchen design - including a scale model


• House design - including a scale model


• Parkour (look it up on the net or look at Tim's display in Room 13)


• Designing and building a scooter/skateboard


• Making a working wind turbine


• Mediaeval Castles


• Volcanoes


• History of the Tour de France


• Deconstructing and reconstructing a bike


• Poisons in the World Wars


• The Eiffel Tower


• Adventure stories about Q Zealanders


• Erecting Tents


• Freestyle Motocross

Students are asked to use the Enquiry Approach when they carry out their investigations.

1. Decide on a topic of interest


2. Ask a question (e.g. how can I build a beer powered radio?)


3. Research the question


4. Perhaps make a model


5. Present what they have learnt (can be a booklet, poster, chart, oral talk, PowerPoint, movie etc.)


6. Present it to the class


7. Include a bibliography