Time to leave Asia and travel over the Pacific Ocean. Many daredevils have tried crazy stunts at this place and not all have survived. Lots of rushing water, barrels and tight rope walking are a strange mixture.
Niagara Falls attracts 20 million visitors per year and can be viewed form the USA or Canada as it is on the border of those two countries. A weir controls how much water goes over the falls to ensure there is always a good view for tourists.
At its summer peak, almost 3000 cubic metres of water goes over the falls every second. How many bathtubs would that fill in one second? How quickly would your city’s dam fill at that rate?
For your technical task this week, firstly research the stunts people have performed over the falls with barrels and tightropes. Wikipedia has some good information on this.
Then draw an image of Niagara Falls using your IWBs drawing tools. Add a tightrope walker and a barrel to the scene. If you are using Activstudio use the Restrictor function to restrict the tighrope walker to moving horizontally over the falls and restrict the barrel to moving vertically within the falls.
Don’t forget to keep marking each place we visit on your world map and mark the path we are travelling.
By: 1-2H on November 10, 2008 
