What a wonderful request from Mandy Nash – how could you combine a study on rivers with some physical computing, and build a Crumble flood gate system?
Well first of all, we need to know how actual flood gates work! Welcome Professor Ivan Haigh who specialises in coastal flooding at Southampton University. Here is my solution, following his advice…
And here is the screen shot of the code I used, using the switch to manually control the flood gate:
UPDATE FROM MANDY!
Her pupil’s actually did it, and have produced some excellent flood barrier systems!! Check it out… Click on the image to watch the video!
Here they all are in action, creating their Thames flood barriers! Thank you so much Mandy from John Keats Primary School for sending these photos in, fabulous projects!
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Thank you so much for this! The children loved it 🙂
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You are soooo very welcome!! Any chance you have some pics of the pupil’s projects that I can add to the page? Or even videos of them working? I’m sure everyone would love to see them!!
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Absolutely! They’ll be delighted to share their amazing work!
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Awesome! Please send any links or links to vids in a Google Drive to my email, use the button at the top of this page. Can’t wait to see them! Let me know if I have permission to include them on my blog. Thanks!
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