Monday, August 2, 2010

Materials used to make houses

Hi, P3 Joy pupils,

Here’s some Science questions for you to blog on. Refer to your science textbook page 60 and blog about the following questions.

a. Which materials were used to make the different houses?

b. What are the points to consider when deciding if a material is a good building material or not?

c. Besides wood and bricks, what other materials are used to make houses around the world and why?

9 comments:

  1. Dear Miss Cao,
    these are my answers for this question.

    a. Answer : The 1st house is made of Straws, the 2nd house is made of Sticks and thee 3rd house is made of bricks.

    b. Answer :We must use hard materials that are not brittle to build houses like : Wood or bricks.We must not use materials that are not hard to build houses like : Stick or Straw. A method to see wheter the house is strong or not, we could ask some people to blow the house together.But it might nedd alot of people's strength so it might not work.But in this story,the wolf blowed the 1st,2nd and 3rd house to get Sue.

    c.The common materials to build houses are still wood and bricks but these are some rare houses that uses interesting materials.
    The glass house is made of glass,there were houses that were made of rocks, sticks, woven cloth and much more.

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  2. a)The houses were built from straw,sticks and bricks.
    b)You can try to bend the material until it breaks.If you can't bend the material you can just decide it for the strongest material.
    c)Glass,woven cloth, rocks and so much more.

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  3. 1)they were built fromstraw,sticksand bricks.2) we can bend or stretch them.3)rocks,wovencloth.

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  4. Ans:a)1st straws,2nd sticks and 3rd bricks.

    b)Take a small piece of material.Then,try breaking it.The material which breaks is the weaker material and the other one is the stronger one.

    c)Glass, rocks, wovencloth.

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  5. A1)Wood,bricks.
    A2)hard,strong,waterproof,stiff.
    A3)leaves,straw,sticks

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  6. a.The first house was made of straws,the second house was made of sticks and third house was made of bricks.
    b.The points are, it needs to be strong and it has to be waterproof.
    c.Cements,because cement is waterproof and strong.

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  7. a.the 1st is straw,2nd is sticks and the last is brick
    b.if we slam the door,will it thumber down,if it would not thumber down,it is a good building material.
    c.the glass house is made of glass instead of wood and brick.

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  8. Answers:
    a)The 1st house is made up of straws and the 2nd house is made up of sticks and the 3rd house is made up of bricks.
    b)It needs to be strong and it has to be waterproof .
    c)Glass, rocks and woven cloth .

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  9. Ans:

    a]The first is made up of straws,the 2nd house is made of sticks and the 3rd house is made of bricks.
    b]You can take different kinds of materail then you can try to break it.
    c]Glass,rocks,woven cloth

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