Science
with Miss Thompson
How strong is a fragile egg?
When Miss Thompson dropped an egg from 30 centimeters high and it smashed, the F/1 students decided that eggs are not very strong at all. We held the shell and it didn't take much for it to break into many pieces. This got very confusing though when Miss Thompson held an egg in her hand and squeezed it as hard as she could and it didn't break... Why was this happening? All F/1 students had a go at squeezing the egg as hard as they could. Fingers were turning red, hands were shaking and we still couldn't crack the egg. So what would happen if we tried to stack encyclopedias on top of 3 eggs? We made our predictions. F/1 students though that one, two, three or maybe even ten encyclopedias would smash the eggs. We were astounded when we stacked 13 on top of the eggs!
So why are eggs so strong? We learnt that eggs have the power of the dome shape. This dome shape distributes any weight applied to the top of it to the entire egg, which is why it took a lot of pressure for the eggs to crack when we were stacking weight onto the top.
We then discovered that encyclopedias have lots of awesome diagrams, maps and images in them....
'Fathom Antarctica' with Kristen Carlson
An awesome opportunity for students aged 10 and up is currently being advertised to participate in from home. 'Fathom Antarctica' is a free online sci-art experience to dive, sketch, explore, quiz, and Q&A with an expert presenter, pondering the sounds and visions of our oceans. There is some information about the event below. If this interests you, pease click on the link to book a spot!
