Making a Lighthouse
Exploring
Electrical Switches
Our class started a project on making light. Our teacher said it would be good if we could make our lights work inside lighthouses. We needed to make the body of the lighthouse and maybe some scenery around it. Our class teamed up into pairs and made lighthouses over a period of about three weeks. Our light had to work inside the lighthouses. Most people made some scenery around the lighthouse. The landscape around the lighthouses was made up of rocks, sand, grass and even road pieces. For the bodies of our lighthouses people used either plastic or cardboard tubes and then painted them. To make the lights work we had two wires connected to batteries. The batteries were then connected to the bulbs, which generated the light. Some people even had switches that would break and rejoin the circuit to make the lights turn on and off. Every lighthouse was unique in its own way.
By
Eoin Blake & Conor Martin (5th Class).