Lifecycle of a Human

Check out this great game for learning about the human life cycle.  Link here...

Science Experiment: Icy Fluid

Science Experiment: Melting chocolate

Experiment: More bubbles in Hokey Pokey

Experiment: Which acid makes the nicest cheese?

Experiment: Hokey Pokey with more bubbles

Experiments: Salty Ice Melting

Sammy's home learning

Check out this science experiment about cooking bacon.

Can you walk on water - oops custard?

What is the science involved?  

What experiment does this remind you of?

What questions do you have?

Home Learning: Patrick the scientist!

Patrick has been getting very busy with the science experiments and then writing about them.  Check out his work.

What could our inquiry be?

Take a look at this 'Mad Scientist' time lapse movie from lots of NZ schools last year.

Which of our experiments grabbed your attention?
What questions or wonderings do you have?
What more do you want to find out about?
Write your ideas and questions on the Padlet at the bottom of the page.

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What happens when we put salt on ice cubes?

Check out this explanation for our experiment today.

Home-play Challenge: Taylah

Check this home play activity out from Taylah…

Here is a picture of me doing my Corny Goo experiment.

It was fun to do!

From Taylah

Science Homeplay Challenge

After a serious discussion about home learning being boring - Waka Endeavour students offered me a solution.  We want to do science experiments!  So here they are!

I have selected eight 'easy to do at home' experiments that you could try together.  If you have other ones you'd like to try, then please go for it but provide a copy of the experiment and record your observations on the sheet provided.

We would love the experiments to be shared on Mondays and hope that one could be completed most weeks.

This experiment option sheet, along with their first choice of experiment and recording sheet will be coming home today.  Have fun being scientists together. 

Scientific Method

Check out this song to help us decide what steps to take when we plan our experiments.

Step 1: Find the problem

Step 2: Gather information

Step 3: Make your hypothesis

Step 4: Plan, do the experiment & record data

Step 5: Analyse

Step 6: Make a conclusion

Step 7:  Re-test

Science Fun Day - what we learned with Mad Scientist Allana

Let's get ready for Term 2

Last term we learned how to work as a team.  We know how to choose good targets and have worked towards achieving them.  In the last week of term, we took a risk and ran KidsAKO workshops for Rooms 3 & 8.  It was MAGIC!  You can do anything.

I am thinking we are ready to do something even more amazing.  I wonder what it could be....

What's up for this term:

Writing - instructions, explanations & movie / workshop scripts

Reading - heaps of information books and even more books of your own choice

Maths - moving into multiplication & division, measurement

Te Reo - days & months, counting over 10, telling the time, my birthday

Science:  What is a scientist?  What do they do? Lots of experiments!

ICT: Explain Everything, Movie making, Twitter, Blogging

Learning:  Targets, planners, independence, AKO - Kids Cafe

Aaahhh - I know we have heaps of exciting thing to do and learn together during Term 2.  I bet you have lots of ideas for us as well.  I can't wait to hear them.  :)

Mushrooms - ECO Promotions Team

We have five mushroom farms in classes all around the school. The classes are sharing the mushrooms. The mushrooms were given to us by Meadow Mushrooms.

Room 4 and Room 3 cooked the mushrooms in butter and we ate them with toothpicks. Most people loved the mushrooms.

The mushrooms must be in a shady place to grow. Mushrooms need water. They grow in 2-5 days. We are surprised that they can grow very fast and very big.

Aria - ECO Promotions Team

Maggie science reflection

In Room 6 we have done some really cool science. My group did coke and water. What I mean is that we watered one plant with coke and one with water. 

The coke grew the tallest but the water was the healthist. The greenst one was the water. The coke one was really pale. The water had lots of leaves to make the food but the coke one didn't have many leaves so it died. I think next time I will get another flower.

Lucy Science reflection

My hightlight this term was seeing the insect man from Lincon University on our school trip.

I learnt what an insect is. An insect has six legs only.

I worked mostly well with my group.

I think the best team was the butterfly garden group.

I liked making the poster on the computer.

Next time I would put the plants closer to the wifi.