Science Week

A huge thank you to Kiwi who ran some science week rotations for us last week. What exciting experiments you shared with us.

 

Little Gardens

Look at what happened to our Gummy Bears...

Here are some of the changes Elina noticed...

Gummy Bear Science

Today we learnt how to carefully prepare a science experiment.

To create a 'fair test' we needed to change only one thing and to keep everything else the same. We put gummy bears into four different types of liquids; vinegar, water, salt water and baking soda mixed into water. We carefully measured the different liquids to make sure we had the same amount in each cup. Next we put gummy bears into the different liquids and made predictions as to what we thought might happen.

By the end of the day changes had already begun ...

Colourful Science

The focus of our science experiment today was making predictions. 
First we put three drops of food colouring into a bowl of milk and then added a drop of dishwashing liquid into the middle of the bowl.
Before we added dishwashing liquid we shared our ideas about what we thought might happen.

Jody - Year 2

Anika - Year 1

Zaar - year 1

Dancing raisins experiment

The children in the Kea classroom have been practicing their scientific skills by carefully  observing, drawing  and describing what they saw.

Sarah Year 1

Pixi Year 1

Elina Year 1

Elli's explanation- Year 1

Click on the above screen to listen to Elli's explanation.

Anika's explanation- Year 2
Click on the above screen to listen to Anika's explanation.

Bouncing Eggs

Making careful observations

This week Jackson shared a science experiment that he had conducted at home. We thought it sounded exciting so we are conducting the same experiment at school.  
Scientists start with a question. Our question is 'Can you make an egg bounce?'

Scientists ask lots of questions. They are patient and look carefully at their experiment to observe what happens. They notice changes and predict what might happen next. 

We put one egg is a cup of water and another egg in a cup of vinegar. We watched carefully to observe any changes.


We are going to observe the changes that happen over the next 7 days.   
What do you think will happen to the eggs?