Hi it’s Kitty Stars!🐱😺 I am going to tell you about my Innovation day project.The project we were asked to is make a medieval castle with a drawbridge.*
*see what a drawbridge is after the paragraph about castles
Hypothesis:
This is my hypothesis of my castle build.
In case you were wondering, here is a quick video of my plan for the gear system which was the original plan and the only plan I used. Except I didn’t use the string on the bottom because I didn’t need it.
Procedure:
My procedure of building starts off by planning the structure out of the materials I have available such as cardboard, clay, wood toothpicks pipe cleaners, string and wire. After I found the material selection I got to work building. When I started to build I started on the main structure, after the main base of the castle I started working on attaching my drawbridge to the base.
This is my medieval work from the study booklet.
Now I’m going to tell you a bit more about the middle ages.
Welcome to the middle ages
If you know about castles , royals and robin hood you already know a little bit about the middle ages.
Castles
Castles are a very important part of medieval times. Many important people such as: Kings, Queens , Princesses , Princes , Noblemen and Guards lived in them. The Castles were firmly built out of wood and stone, to protect food , drink and weapons. Castle walls sometimes closed in lots of little buildings to form a little town within the very walls! Today Castles aren’t meant for comfort, they are made to protect.
*Drawbridges
Drawbridges are crossways that used to be in old fashioned castles. Drawbridges in castles would be used to cross a body of water around the castle called a moat. A moat is a necessity for a securely safe castle around enemies because it keeps the people inside safe. ( Because I don’t think soldiers want to swim in a moat! ) So having a Drawbridge is important because you can lower it to protect the people inside. Also drawbridges use pulleys , click on pulleys to find out a little more about them.
Lords vs Serfs
Lords
Lords were more privileged than Serfs , the boys were educated, the girls sometimes got to learn how to read. ( the reason that only the boys were educated is: back then people believed girls were only meant to be wife’s and mother’s which isn’t fair. ) the Lords had big and beautiful bold houses and nice clothes and even servants! and Lords had the most power.
Serfs
Serfs were less privileged than the lords, they had the least amount of power and they took care of the animals and grew the food and were called farmers. Some of the Serfs had more power than the other people of the Serf population and they were called Freemen.
Knights
Now don’t you get caught up with nights! Because these Knights are much tougher!
Knights are a lot like guards but instead of protecting the entrances and castle grounds, knights usually fought and sometimes protected the ground with the soldiers.
Here is the video of my castle, how it turned out and how the drawbridge works.
Here is a picture of me building my castle.
Conclusion
In the end, I was pretty impressed with the way everything turned out. The Drawbridge turned out to work just fine and the Castle itself , was beautiful and the decor turned out almost perfect. I loved the way it turned out.
Self reflecting conclusion
What did I think?
I think it turned out amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it turned out just the way I wanted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A lot of the decorations didn’t turn out the most perfect but I still really liked the way it came out.
Self reflection
The castle turned out just the way I wanted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don’t think I would have done it any other way. I think in the end, to my opinion it’s perfect.
🏰Thank you for viewing!!
