Juniors busy challenging each other... and the office staff!

Mrs McCloy loved playing Chess against these guys... everyone had so much fun.

 

Sprinkler Experiment by Grace

Here we are warming up our brains playing challenging games against people from other rooms. 

Grace brought along a water bottle fitted with a straw for her Sprinkler Experiment.

She had cold water inside the bottle and then sat that bottle inside a jug of boiling water.

Grace hypothesised that as the pressure inside the bottle heats up as the water gets warmer... the water will come out the top of the straw like a sprinkler.

When she first did the experiment nothing happened but Aliyah told us all to have some patience. As we waited the cold water inside the bottle slowly heated up and the water started to drip out of the top of the straw. 

We kept waiting and watching... it didn't actually start to spray out like a sprinkler but the longer we waited the more the drips speed up.

We think the heat acted like a catalyst to speed up the drips. The hotter the water in the jug the faster it would heat the cold water in the bottle.

Thanks Grace. Mrs Maw has been so impressed with the way everyone has self managed this activity.

The only person we are waiting for now is Blake. He will bring his experiment ( or a video of it) with him to TAG in Term 4.

Aaliyah's Water in a Bag Experiment

Aaliyah brought along an experiment that used a plastic bag filled with water and some pencils.

Her hypothesis was that if she poked pencils through the bag no water would leak out because there would be friction around the holes which would seal them around the pencil.

She did the experiment and only one hole leaked a tiny bit.

An excellent experiment Aaliyah!

We are looking forward to Blake and Grace's experiment next time!

One experiment and one scientist - Thanks Margo and Georgia !

 Margo brought along an experiment with lots of scientific equipment she could teach us the names to.

She had a beaker, a test tube, a pipette, a drip tray, a scoop.

Her hypothesis was that if she combined vinegar and baking soda there would be a reaction ( explosion) and gas and liquid would bubble up out of the test tube over into the drip tray.

She was right!

She repeated the experiment in a larger container with more baking soda and vinegar and she hypothesised that the reaction would also be BIGGER - she was right again.

We talked about how after an experiment the things in the experiment have changed and aren't still vinegar and baking soda... so you couldn't reuse the vinegar and pour it in with the unused stuff or it would not work.

We also talked about some ways to speed up an experiment - stirring, shaking, heating up or adding a catalyst because Margo tried stirring the leftovers to make it speed up and it did work.

Wow that was lots of science words!

Georgia has studied a famous scientist Rosalind Rosevelt.

Rosalind took the first photo of DNA  which showed its structure and found out all about it.

Georgia had prepared an amazing powerpoint which she had timed exactly to her words.

She also had colour photocopies of the structure of DNA for us to look at up close.

We thought we learned flash words with Margo... then Georgia taught us Deoxyribonucleic acid!

Bradley also tried his experiment at home before he shared it with us.

Here are his results

Press this link to see his PowerPoint https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xmiKFQWOIGTcRKIqvE8PbFwBw9t3lo_DTM86XEBz2JQ/edit#slide=id.p1

Middle TAG Questions

Now we have almost finished our experiments or investigations into  a famous scientist we can start on our inquiry questions .

We just need Aliyah on the 22nd Sept then Blake and Grace 29th Sept and then we are done.

Questions

Denise - What are butterflies wings made out of and how did the scientists find out?Do different types of butterflies have different wing structures? Hyperlink to Denise's answers here

Harper - 1. What makes glasses lenses so strong that it makes it easier to see?  Hyperlink to Harper's answer here

Zara - How does the sun and water make a seed sprout?  Hyperlink to Zara's answer here

Georgia - Who made the first lightbulb and what did it involve? What sort of life did he have? 

Hyperlink to Georgia's answer here

Margo - How did plants get here? - where did the first plant come from? Hyperlink to Margo's answer here

Blake - How is a rocket that can get to the moon made ? What fuel does it use? What was the first rocket  that got to the moon ever?  Hyperlink to Blake's answer here

Grace - How did we evolve from other animals? Hyperlink to Grace's answer here

Aaliyah - Who was the first ever scientist and what did they first invent or explore?  Hyperlink to Aaliyah's answer - Here

Our Inquiry Questions now we have finished our experiments.

 

Darcy 

Question 1-  Why is the moon sometimes out in the daytime?

Answer

The moon is visible in daylight almost always but we just don't look or it is behind clouds.

The moon and the sun are only opposite each other in the sky one day a month - on a full moon!

On this day the sun is rising just as the sun is setting. That is not the case every other day of that month.

Willow 

Question 1- What are all the types of domestic cats you can get in New Zealand?

Answer 

WILLOW'S CAT BREEDS 🐈‍⬛🐈

Abyssinia 

American bobtail

American curl

American short hair

American wire hair 

Asian

Australia mist

Balinese

Balinese-Javanese 

Bengal

Birman

Bombay 

British short hair

Burmese 

Burmilla

Cymrics

Cornish Rex 

Chinchilla 

Devon Rex 

Egyptian Mau

Exotic short hair

Havana brown 

Himalayan

Japanese bobtail long hair 

Japanese bobtail short hair

Khao manee

Korat

La perms

Maine coon

Manx

Munchkin 

Norwegian forest

Ocicat

Oriental long hair 

Oriental short hair

Persian long hair

Pixie bob

ragdoll

Russian blue

Savannah

Scottish fold

Selkirk Rex

Siamese

Siberian forest

Singapura

Snowshoe

Somali

Sphynx 

Tiffane 

Tonkinese

Toyger

Turkish angora

Turkish van

Question 2 - 

How many wild cat breeds are there?

Answer

Lion

Leopard 

Jaguar 

Tiger

Snow leopard

Clouded leopard

Sunda  clouded leopard

Asiatic golden cat

Borneo bay cat

Marbled cat

Caracal

African golden cat

Serval

Geoffroy’s cat

Guina

Southern oncilla 

Northern oncilla

Andean cat

Colocolo

Margay

Ocelot 

Iberian lynx 

Eurasia lynx 

Canada lynx 

Bobcat

Mountain lion

Jaguarundi

Cheetah 

Mainland leopard cat 

Sunda leopard cat

Fishing cat

Flat headed cat

Rusty spotted cat 

Pallas cat

European wild cat

African wild cat 

Chinese mountain cat

Sand cat 

Black footed cat

Jungle cat

Pampas cat

Pantanal cat

Iriomote cat

Willow 

Question 3 - How many cats were around during the ice age? 

Beringiah Lion

American Scimitar Cat

Saber tooth Tiger.

Angus 

Question 1- Why do Zebra have black and white stripes? What good is that for camouflage?

I found out that zebra can camouflage unto the dry grass and the predators are colour blind so it will look black and white. they don't attack because they think that it is some sort of big animal. Zebra stripes can scare away flies.

Logan 

Question 1- Why do Chameleons need so many different colour changes for camouflage?

Chameleons do use camouflage the ability to blend int their surroundings to hide from predators such as snakes and birds, their natural colour is greenish brown to blend in.

She might also tune brown or white to indicate that she is not in the mood. 

The brown colour can mean lots of things. On reason why a chameleon turns brown is that it is depressed.

Chameleons are famous for their quick colour changing ability. It is a common mistake for people to think this is for camouflage but it can also be to show moods. 

Bradley 

Question1 - How many stars are in the Milky Way ? 

Answer - 100 Billion stars

 Question 2 - Mrs Maw says...How do they know that Bradley ?

Answer - We know it is 100 billion starts in the Milky Way because they found out that red, white and blue stars give give off different amounts of light. By measuring that starlight specifically its colour and brightness astronomers can estimate how many stars our galaxies hold.

Bradley 

3  - How many solar systems are in a galaxy ?

Our Planetary System is the only one official solar system but astronomers have discovered more than 3200 stars with planets orbiting them in our galaxy.

Noah - What were the first stars born in the whole galaxy? The first stars formed when the universe was about 100 million years old. The formation of the first galaxy . These stars were called Population 3 stars  and we don't know why. They have already classed the stars of the Milky Way as Population 2 stars. 

Thomas - What are the animals that can see colours that humans can't and what is it that they can see? How do we know that they can see them?

Dogs can only see the difference in light. Dogs can only pick up blue and yellow. There is 50000 different types of each colour which makes 10,000 altogether. Dogs can see in the dark better than their humans. 

Humans have 3 types of cones - red blue and green. Both the red and blue cones overlap, together with the rods which perceive black and white. This allows humans to see millions of colours.  However some animals have cones that are able to detect ultra violet wavelengths and others are able to detect infra red wavelengths.

Chameleons can see ultraviolet light. Additionally, some birds have cones other than those preciously mentioned meaning that they can see colours we cannot.

Mrs Maw told us about a famous scientist who changed the world!

Marie Currie - The first woman to get two Noble Prizes... one for Physics, the next for Chemistry.