The year fours have been learning about different forces, like ‘air resistance’. Air Resistance is a type of friction that occurs between air and another material. Air resistance is a force that acts on parachutes to slow a person’s fall to the ground. As the person falls the air pushes up against […]
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Room 8 FUN!
Guest Post by Drew and Alliyah Today in science the year 6’s in room 8 got to do a lot of fun things due to people being at choir so there were only 10 people. The first thing the yr 6’s created was a rocket. The body of the rocket is made out […]
Learning About Sound
This term the year ones have been learning and light and sound energy. They have learnt that sound energy travels in waves but we can’t see it. When we talk or make sound the vibrations travel through the air to our ears so we can hear them. Sound can also travel through other objects. We […]
National Science Week
Recently our school celebrated National Science Week. Over two weeks the classes worked really hard on activities about ‘light’ to align with this year’s theme ‘Making Waves: The Science of Light’. All this great work culminated with an Interactive Science Display in the undercover area on Friday 21st of August. All the classes came […]
Rainbows
As a part of National Science Week activities I have been working with all the classes on topics about light. I have also been lucky enough to visit the Kindy and Pre-Primary classes and teach some fun Science with their students. This week the Kindy and Year 2 classes have been learning about rainbows. In […]
Lunchtime Science Fun!
To help celebrate National Science Week I have been running some fun Science activities during the lunch break. It has been wonderful watching children of all different ages work together and seeing the older children help out the younger ones. On the first day we made ‘Lava Lamps’. They were a lot of fun and […]
Learning About Light
This term the year fives are learning about ‘light’. We have learnt that: Light travels in waves. The waves travel in a straight path. When light hits a reflective surface it bounces off in another direction. We have been trying out a few different activities to observe how light behaves in different situations and test out […]
Leap Motion
This week we got a new ‘toy’ in the Science Lab. It is the Leap Motion controller. This magic controller makes the space between you and the computer three-dimensional and interactive. It enables us to interact with the computer programs without touching anything. How does it work? The Leap Motion controller is a small […]
Electricity and Circuits
This term the year sixes are learning about electrical energy and this week we were studying how electrical circuits work. A circuit is a closed path or loop around which an electric current flows. A circuit is usually made by linking electrical components together with pieces of wire cable. Thus, in a flashlight, there […]
Investigating Force
This term the year four classes are learning about types of FORCES. A force is a push or a pull that makes things move, stop moving or change direction. We played games of golden child on the basketball court and talked about the the ways we applied force to the ball by pushing or pulling it […]