Science Roadshow

This week some students went and visited the Science Roadshow. The Science Roadshow was lots of fun, the children got to trial a whole range of different experiments as well as try to figure out the reasons why certain things worked the way they do.

Paige and Michelle trying to figure out how this experiment with rotational gravity worked. 

Jasraj and Aomi

Codi and Ethyn 

Even the teachers learnt lots too. 

 Codey, Aomi and Jasraj

And we sat down to learn about some different topics, such as how muscles work.

Aomi even won a pen with a caliper attached, which is used to measure the distance between two sides of an object.

Reminder: Science Fair projects should be coming together now, they are due next Friday.

Diet Water Presentation!

As part of their Cycle One presentation Diet Water created a video to help share their message of the importance of a healthy lifestyle.

Award of Merit

Ka Pai Alex!

 

 

 

This weeks Award of Merit went to Alex for the fantastic effort he put into his writing last term.

Well Done!

Fair testing!!!

 

Fair Testing Science!

Purpose- Describe what is needed in a fair test.

We watched a scientific variable video to answer a set of questions, about all the different variables you can have in a science experiment.

First there is a independent variable, in order for a experiment to be fair we can only change ONE thing.

Next there is the controlled variable, the things in the experiment that need to be the same are the controlled variables.

Then there is the Dependent variable, the things in the experiment you are trying to measure are called the Dependent variable.

 

 

We used this video clip to help us prepare for the upcoming science fair

Statistics

As part of our learning we have been working on statistical investigations. To do this we conducted a survey after first deciding what we needed to find out. We are now working on presenting and decoding the information we gathered into.

This week we have been working on creating pie graphs. To do this we had to convert our tally marks into percentages of the pie graph. We had to make sure we used a ruler.

 

 

Next we use a protractor to measure the areas of the pie graph.

 

 

Then we used a ruler to go from the centre of the graph to the outside, making sure we divide our pie graph correctly.