TIE DYED MILK - SCIENCE

We had a blast at our Science opt in workshop today. 

Adding food colouring to milk looks great.  

But look at what happens when Shyloh adds dish liquid to the milk. 
The colours all move around and create some amazing patterns.

 

You could try this at home!

STATIC ELECTRICITY - SCIENCE

Our static electricity Science opt-in created a lot of interest and fun today.  Check it out!

We borrowed LC 14's Plasma Ball.  We thought it was fascinating when we touched the ball.  The lights went towards our hands!  It was pretty cool!

  

 

This is how it works...

SCIENCE SHARING SESSION

We had our sharing session for our Opt-In workshops.  This was a great way to finish up this term's Science learning.  We have discovered that we are now thinking like Scientists.

We took the opportunity to share with our friends all our learning.

EXPLORING SHADOWS

We took time to EXPLORE shadows today in the Light and Colour Opt-in... here is what we found out:

Light passes through holes in things so the holes do not not make a shadow - Xavier

If the sun was shining onto you, you'd have a black light shadow because you are blocking the sunlight - Zac

When your fingers are spread out you can see the shadow when you hold a torch to it but you can also see a dim shadow around the main show - Keira

If you put the torch closer to the object, the shadow will be smaller and it you pull the torch further away from the object, the shadow will be bigger - Oliver H and Christopher

If you put something close to the light the shadow will be bigger - Zac

Light does not shine through solid things - Keira

Light shines through transparent things - Jacob N

MIXING COLOURS

Today in Mrs Lunn's Colours and Light Opt-in Workshop, we explored mixing colours.  We used paddles of plastic in different colours and a torch to have a go at trying to make new colours.

Here is what we discovered...

• We found out that when we put two paddles together, and shine the torch through, it makes a different colour
• We found out that blue and yellow made green 
• We found out that red and yellow make orange
• We found out that blue and red make purple

SCIENCE OPT-IN - COLOUR AND LIGHT

Today Mrs Lunn challenged us to make a rainbow using some different objects.  She gave us a mirror, a prism, a piece of white paper and a torch.  She said we might not need to use all the things she gave us... but it was up to us to see what combinations worked.  We WONDERED how we were going to do it!

There was HUGE excitement in Wonderland as we EXPLORED how to make rainbows.

Here's what we found out:

Mason - When Elliot was holding the prism, we aimed the flashlight at it and it made a really big rainbow

Parker - When we held the prism up to our eyes and tilted it we saw a gigantic rainbow and everyone we looked at looked like a rainbow

Keira - I thought it was quite cool, just like Parker said, when you had it on your eye that when I looked at our rainbow flags, the colours changed

Finn - Me and Quinn B put the prism on the edge and then shone the torch and it made a big rainbow

Jacob S - We put a mirror on the bottom and one on the top with prism on the bottom mirror and we put the torch at the prism and we could see a rainbow

Connor - I found out that me and Cruz could make a rainbow by putting a mirror on the bottom and putting the prism upside down.  We flashed the light and it made a rainbow.


SO WHAT...

Finn - You can make rainbows out of light

Keira - The light is made up of different colours

Here is a video of Keira explaining what she knows about rainbows...

Science - By Quinn B
In Science we were working with Mrs Lunn.  We were trying to make.  They were pretty hard and we used a torch ad a triangular prism and a mirror.

MAGNETS

 Our learning about Magnets has been continuing this week.  The children have been exploring using magnets and making some very scientific observations about what they see happening.

"Magnets are cool because they stick to sand.  It was a metal sand.  We did it at school.  Magnets are cool. "- Kazma

Today we learnt the proper scientific words to explain what we are seeing.  We have learnt words like attract, repel, magnetism and magnetic.

SCIENCE - PHYSICAL WORLD - MAGNETS

Today those of us that opted into 'Magnets' for Science had our first session with Mrs Lunn.  Our first activity was to sort a collection of objects that Mrs Lunn had collected, and sort them into groups.

Scientists are good at classifying things.

We took turns at picking an object and deciding which hoop it should go into.  As scientists, we asked ourselves if it was the same as anything else, or was it different.  We ended up classifying the objects by what things were made of...

Hmm... Kazma is WONDERing what this object is made of.  It felt like plastic on the sides but when he flipped it over he could see it was made of cardboard.

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 When we were classifying all the objects, we realised that some objects could actually be put in more than one hoop.  We decided that if we overlapped the hoops, we could put the object in the middle of where the two hoops overlapped.  We found a lot of our objects that we both METAL and PLASTIC like the scissors and some clothes pegs.

We came up with label names for each set:  Wood, Plastic, Metal, Wax, Fabric and Cardboard.

Next Mrs Lunn showed us the magnets.  Our challenge was to EXPLORE all the different objects and see what happens when we put the magnets next to them...

We soon found out that not all objects stick to the magnets.  We wondered what objects that stuck to the magnets had in common.  We noticed that the magnets stuck to metals.  

We decided to test our theory - Magnets stick to metals.

Weird... we OBSERVED (that's a scientist's word for looked) that NOT all metals stuck to the magnet.  So we came up with a new theory... SOME metals stick to magnets but not all.

We reflected on what we found out today:

• Some objects can be classified into more than one group
• Plastic is not magnetic
• Wood, Cardboard and Wax are not magnetic
• Fabric is not magnetic
• SOME metals are magnetic

We thought and acted like Scientists today.  We observed, we made connections, we came up with theories and EXPLORED them then we evaluated them.  Pretty flash stuff!

Magnets - By Tyler
When me and Jack were doing Magnets, we got the big magnet.  We had a lot of fun.  We found out that some metals do not stick to magnets.

Magnets - By Jack
When me and Tyler were doing Magnets, we got the big magnet and we had fun with the magnets.  Max was with us as well.  I found out that we could classify objects into wood, metal, plastic and rubber.

Magnets - By Kade
Yesterday the teacher put my magnet up on the roof.  It stuck to a metal thing hanging down.  I found out that some metals are magnetic and some metals are not.

Magnets - By Holly
Yesterday we did magnets.  Some stuff can't stick to the magnet.  Some stuff stuck to the magnets.  A screw stuff to the magnet sone objects didn't stick to the magnet and it was fun.

Magnets - By Kazma
Yesterday I did magnets workshop with my group.  I loved it.  Magnets stick to metal.  Magnets do not stick to plastic.