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.

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.

The BrainFreezers

We are the BrainFreezers group. Our HOT question is to determine Howick Intermediate student's perception of how people receive head injuries and explore how people can avoid injuries in different situations and implement a campaign to encourage people to wear helmets.

For our social action we are going to make a picture book for Islander children to encourage them to wear helmets. We will be focussing on narrative writing to tell the story about the consequences of not wearing helmets. We are going to work with Miss Haag the art specialist teacher to make pictures for our up coming book.

by Jireh and Tristyn

Research

In Room 19 we have been putting our research skills into use at the library.

To research we know that we must first plan what we would like to find out about, to do this we have been using a KWHL Chart.

This chart shows what we know, what we want to know, how we found out the information, and what we have learnt. By using this we are able to spend our time researching effectively.

Award of Merit - Week Three

Today at Assembly Room 19 received a certificate from Mrs Watson for 'including the food technology taster photos and their enthusiasm on the Class Blog!!'

Jasraj also received a certificate for his positive attitude and willingness to help others around him.

Ka Rawe Room 19!