This week Year 10 found their classroom had become a factory.  Students were trained how to make paper boats (don’t worry the paper was scrap paper supplied by Ms Barras and Ms Morson). They were then spilt into 3 groups and had to make paper boats but each group had a different set of rules:

•Group A –Boats must be made from start to finish by each group member. You must use 4 spots min on each boat
•Group B – 9 members boats can be made continuously but each person in the team must do 1 or 2 folds then pass it on. You do not need to put spots on your boats
•Group C- 9 members. You must make boats the same way as group B but in blocks of 10 adding 2 red spots to the first 10, 2 blue spots to the next 10 and so on. You can only start the next colour batch when all boats of a particular colour are finished and must count to 20 before starting the next colour.

The race was on to see who could make the most boats.

Group A had fun making individual boats and decorating them this was called job production.

Group B produced the biggest number of boats and this was mass production.

Group C did batch production and they found it frustrating having to wait between colour changes. All in all the students learned about production by actually producing goods.