Archives for Science
A new breed of scientists
This week our year 7 students visited Newton Moore Senor High School to partake in a science lesson about wind turbines. They certainly looked the part!! What did you...
Our Haiku Decks – A Term in Review
We have all now had the opportunity to use the Haiku Deck app to create a visual image about Term 1. I haven’t been able to embed them into...
Tightrope Walkers
We found the tightrope walkers a challenging activity to complete. Once we had it balanced, the tricky part was to get it to slide down a line. A key...
Rocking and Rolling
Last Tuesday our class conducted a science experiment trialing a few different ways to make a cylindrical piece of paper and half a ping pong ball stand up straight....
Swinging Pendulums
The last few weeks we have been studying pendulums. A pendulum is a weight hanging from a fixed position. Some of the terms we have learnt are oscillation, amplitude...
Science Week – Mangrove Mariners
For National Science Week, we were lucky enough to spend the morning out and about at in our local mangroves, thanks to the efforts of Mr Scott and his...
Frozen Science
This term for Integrated Studies we have been looking at Antarctica and it has been a lot of fun. Many of the activities we have done for Science can...
Spaghetti Bridges
UPDATE: Mrs Burgess is so much better organised than I am so I thought I would direct everyone to Mrs B’s Team report on how our testing went. http://shelleyburgess.edublogs.org/2011/07/08/spaghetti-bridge-testing/...