Science

2011

Since we've returned to our own school we have started having science again every week. ( there was no water in our 'classroom at St Theresa's and it was too crowded to have science safely.) Last week we did an experiment blowing up a balloon using a warm water,yeast and sugar mixture in the bottom of a jar. The balloons did inflated but what was even more interesting was after 5 or so days some of the balloons deflated and became sucked into the bottles filling the empy space above the water, yeast and sugar. It looked quite bizzarre. This week we have prepared chuncks food in air tight containers in order to watch then going mouldy. We're hoping for a lot of different colours of mould but we'll have to wait and see. Wwe also did a 'sense test' where we were blindfolded and had to guess the objects our friends had brought from home.

This year we have been exploring many avenues of science; Biology, Physics, Astronomy, Chemistry, Geology and Weather. The students have had great fun learning while experimenting. We have created thermometers, mini greenhouses,created carbon, observed properties of water made 'wine gum' molecules and so on. Here are some photos of our students learning.