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Showing posts with label inquiry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inquiry. Show all posts
Friday, September 19, 2014
Dunedin Airport Trip
Room 4 had a fabulous trip to Dunedin Airport as part of our inquiry topic learning all about how airports work and why they are important places. Check out this presentation that we collaborated on. If you weren't able to come on our trip you might learn something new from looking at our presentation.
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Elephant's Toothpaste in the Lab
We had the coolest visit to the science lab. It was part of our unit about solids, liquids, and gases.
We all had to wear safety glasses. Mrs McTavish was our expert scientist.
William was the first assistant. He got to help Mrs McTavish create the mixture.
We loved watching the elephant's toothpaste oozing out of the bottle. It started off really fast and high, then it slowed down to a slow ooze.
It sure did make a lot!!!
We decided to do it again, but this time we added black food colouring instead of pink. Toby was the assistant.
It was a great reaction too....
...so we did it again. You can see from Mrs McTavish's face just how much she loves science! And we loved her enthusiasm as we visited the lab!
It was such a terrific afternoon, we can't wait to go back to the lab again!!!!
Check out our videos to see the reactions actually happen.
Elephant's Toothpaste - Video 1
Elephant's toothpaste - video 2
Elephant's Toothpaste - video 3
Sunday, August 24, 2014
Making hokey pokey
While some of our classmates were away skiing, the rest of us were very busy learning while making...
HOKEY POKEY!
This was a terrific way to end our science topic all about solids, liquids and gases.
2 Tablespoons of golden syrup and 4 Tablespoons of sugar, simmering in a pot for 7 minutes
1 teaspoon of baking soda added - woah! What a difference!
In no time our liquid had turned into a solid.
Time for the taste test - Mmmmmm delicious!
Did you know....? when the baking soda is added to the golden syrup and sugar mixture, that there is a reaction which causes carbon dioxide to be trapped in the mixture (resulting in the bubbles/holes in the hokey pokey).
Friday, August 22, 2014
Turning liquids into a solid
Today in Room 4 Mrs O showed us a bottle of milk and a bottle of white vinegar - 2 liquids. She then told us that these two liquids could turn into a solid. But how? We wondered if we had to put them in the freezer... but NO!
Watch our video to find out what to do...
Thank you to William and Josie for making our movie.
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