Science

Melting Moments

melting moments picture (Small)You all worked really well in Science today.  I loved some of your wonderings:

I wonder how long it would take to melt hail? (Oliver)

I wonder how long it would take to freeze jelly?  (Oliver)

I wonder why ice-cream is soft but not like ice in the middle when it’s frozen? (Izzy)

Can hair or meat melt? (Georgie)

What is the hottest something can get when melting? (Sajer)

I wonder how things like butter can melt in a pantry? (Charlotte)

What is the lowest temperature that can melt something? (Robbi)

If you freeze softdrink and melt it halfway, would it be chunky? (Millie)

I wonder what it would look like when plastic melts, and what temperature does it burn at? (Jase)

How long would it take to freeze a banana? (Lazane)

Could lava turn one ice-block into water in two seconds? (Sam)

I wonder why candles melt when you light them? (Grace)

Can a pencil freeze solid?  How long will it take? (Seb)

How does hail freeze? (Kyron)

I wonder if ice-cream could go so solid that you can’t bite into the ice-cream? (West)

Would a banana skin freeze? (Sunny)

I wonder what would happen if you froze a real human being? (Alana)

Don’t forget to start your science observations at home soon and make drawings and notes of what you see.  You need to collect it all and put it together in an interesting way to present to the rest of the class in week 7 to show what you found out about ‘melting’ and things becoming “Run, run, runny!”.

Mrs Veary 🙂

Year 3 Bush Scientists

A few weeks ago the Year 3s went on a Science excursion to Barrett Street Forest Reserve.  As part of our Be a Bush Scientist work, students learnt from Tracey Muir just how to recognise and identify local trees and plants, both on our school oval and in the bush.  We drew and collected bark, leaves and gum nuts of Blue Gums, Karris, Marris and Peppy Trees. 

Thank you to all our very patient and helpful parents who came along on the excursion.  Your help is much appreciated.  🙂

Enjoy this slideshow of the trip. [Students may want to help put some captions into this….?]

Year 3 Bush Scientist Excursion on PhotoPeach

Now we are looking forward to our excursion tomorrow where we will be digging pit traps to see how healthy our bush is and learn about biodiversity.  Wow – can’t wait to get our hands dirty!

 

Meeting the Scitech Team

Sasha has worked hard to write a good post about your Scitech visit.  I’m very impressed with your ability to work on-line on the blog posts. 🙂

Guess what?

On Friday 26th of October, Scitech came to visit Margaret River Primary School. Room 6 was lucky enough to have three sessions with Scitech while they were at the school.The first session was the show.  The show was all about WHAT MAKES SOUND?  We soon learnt that vibration makes sound. We also listened to some sounds that were a bit weird and different from everyday sounds. One of them was made with a straw.  It sounded amazing!

Now that we knew that vibration makes sound we were given items to make our own instruments. In this hands-on activity we were put into groups. Each group had to make at least 2 different sounds with each instrument that they had made. Everybody enjoyed it and we made some sounds that you don’t hear every day.  You can hear a few of the sounds they made here.

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Jack and Charlie also explained how they made their instruments before making their sound.

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Our final session in the space dome was an exciting experience. In the space dome we learnt interesting facts about all the planets and stars. The presenter showed us how the stars form shapes which is how the Aboriginal people see the Emu. She showed us how stars form shapes and told us the Zodiac names of the shapes in the sky and how far away the Sun is from  the Earth.

I think everybody learnt a lot and had fun in the space dome.

Meeting the Scitech Team on PhotoPeach

I definitely enjoyed it!  Did you?                       🙂