Educational activity around the short film Punctuwool
6-9 years: Understand the function and functioning of manufactured objects. Create technical objects by combining existing elements following an assembly diagram.
9-11 years old: Design and produce all or part of a technical object as a team to translate a technological solution meeting a need. Understand the movement of an object (trajectory and speed: units and orders of magnitude).
Punctuwool © Jacob Streilein
TitlePunctuwool
ThemeClimate
Genre & keywordsComic, cloud, rain, sheep, despot
Age (for film)6-11 years old
Duration4 min 03 s
DirectorJacob Streilein
MusicMichael Paul Kennedy
ProductionCalarts (United States, 2012)
Design a small boat and race using breath as energy.
“Punctuwool” ends with a sweet poetic moment during which the “cloud sheep” have fun blowing on boats.
The teacher will start from this final sequence of the film to offer the students the following challenge: make small boats that can float on water and move forward when you blow on them with a straw.
Students will form project teams and begin thinking about this project. Several sessions will be offered for students to design, test and validate their prototype. The teacher will support each group and encourage the progress of the experiments by offering time to share together at the end of each session. On the Games and Company website, some ideas for making boats that float...
When each team has validated and built their small boat, a fun time in the form of a boat race will be organized. Each team will be given a “cloud sheep” straw and will compete in a boat race in a large container (children’s bathtub style). If we want to increase the difficulty of the race, we can create a small course with objects to go around for example.
Activity sheet written by: Emilie de Jeux d'école. Discover the School Games website...
