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Crash Test Dummies

Year 10 students have been asked to design a Crash Test Dummy style outfit for one of their science teachers.

 

Year 10 students have been asked to design a Crash Test Dummy style outfit for one of their science teachers.
Science Teacher, Miss Melanie Jolliffe has set her Year 10 students the task of designing her a protective suit which will minimise the damage to her body if she was to fall over.
Miss Jolliffe has asked her students to design a suit for her, using their scientific knowledge to back up their suggestions.
The project links in with what the students have been looking at in science lessons including safety provided by seat belts.
They are being asked to think of the best materials to use and what special devices and gadgets they would include to save their teacher from injuring herself if she was to have an accident.   
Miss Jolliffe said: “I have given my students until later this week to complete this task but the ideas and designs are already coming through to me, and the ideas I have seen so far are great, very inventive and imaginative designs.”
She added: “I do not want to give any other students too many clues, but I will say a lot of ideas I have been given so far have made suggestions of outfits that would definitely cushion any falls or knocks or bumps I might have.  Whether I could actually be able to move or walk around in some of these designs is something that would have to be tried and tested!”
Year 10 student, Adam Bridgman, said: “It has been a project with a difference. We have been thinking of the best ways to cushion Miss Jolliffe’s fall and our design is looking to use a mattress material to make the protective suit out of.
“We have also included knee pads to protect her further and an extra supportive walking stick to keep Miss Jolliffe more upright.”
Miss Jolliffe, will decide later this week which of the designs is the best, based on the best ideas alongside the science applied to their design.