Science Design & Technology

This term the whole school’s Inquiry unit has been exploring Science and Design and Technology. The grade 5’s were lucky enough to have an incursion from Mad About Science - where two experts, Sos and Oscar, came to teach us about Earth and The Milky Way.  Earth is part of the Solar System and our Galaxy is The Milky Way.  The Solar System also includes other planets, moons, and other objects like asteroids and meteors orbiting the Sun.  Here are a few highlights for our grade 5’s.  

During the Science incursion we learnt was the real size of space and the length of each planet from the sun.  We also learnt that pressure can turn into thrust and other stars that are light years away. We then learnt about how the universe keeps expanding, and on top of that we learnt about the rocky planets [mercury, venus, earth and mars], the gas planets [jupiter, saturn, uranus, neptune] and the icy planets [uranus and neptune]. Concluding the incursion we also found out about the types of orbits.  By Addison and Liam (5LT)

On Wednesday the 4 of June had an incursion about science/astronomy. Two people, named Sos and Oscar know a lot about astronomy and science, came and taught us about cool facts and activities. The first activity was that we had to be in a group of 2-4 people then we placed all the planets where they had to go on a piece of cloth. Another experiment we learnt about explosions in space and to test this out we put a tablet (aspirin) in a test tube with water in and put a cork lid on top and waited for the reactions then…POP!!! The lid blew off! If you were quick enough, you could make the lid pop a few more times. We then sat on the floor and the science teacher talked about the theory of the big bang whilst mixing some green chemicals and glitter stars in a plastic container and when the chemicals reacted together that created what's called … ELEPHANT TOOTHPASTE!!!   By Caleb (5CM) 

On Wednesday the 4th of June we went to the hall and we met the mad science people for an incursion about earth and the milky way (our galaxy). We got into groups and we needed to do all of these activities like placing plants in the right order, doing teamwork stuff like placing the rocket ship in the space station, and with this test tube we put this acid and we put a tablet in we closed the test tube the put the lid on, and the lid popped onto the sky it was very cool, they even taught us rhyme to be able to remember the planets in order (Many Very Excellent Monkeys Just Served Us Nachos). It was coming to the end and I got chosen to stand on this platform and the lady asked to twist myself around. It was very hard but I got there. They spun this wheel very quickly and the lady gave the wheel to me. I tilt the wheel to one side and to the other it pulled me to the direction I was tilting it. I would rate the incursion a 10/10.  By Isabel M (5CM)