STEM News

Dear fellow scientists, 

Prep students are currently planning their 'In The Cup' design project while practicing their idea- generation skills. They are collaborating in groups to build a ramp using cardboard. 

Watch this video on pass the salt: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=nORRgU8sGdE&t=102s

Grade 1 students are exploring how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people utilise Earth’s resources, such as rocks and plants. Students experimented a rock like ochre to paint on their worksheets and compared traditional methods of using these resources with modern practices. 

Grade 2 students predicted which food items- such as pasta, bread, or apple- would decompose the fastest in composting. In their STEM workbooks, they created a T-chart labelled ‘Recycle’ and ‘Compost’ to categorise various objects accordingly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5s4n9r-JGU 

Grade 3 students are exploring the concept of night and day by demonstrating the Earth's rotation. They use a model of the Earth and Sun to illustrate this phenomenon and create labelled diagrams to explain how night and day occur.

https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/buac18-k2-sci-ess-daynightspace/earths-day-and-night-from-space/ 

Grade 4 students investigated the indirect force of gravity and its impact on people and objects. Working collaboratively, they safely explored the effects of gravity and wrote a sentence about its nature in their STEM workbooks. 

In Grade 5, students are demonstrating light refraction. They defined refraction, completed a sentence describing it in their STEM workbooks, and participated in class demonstrations. They also drew diagrams of these demonstrations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zarxpu43-ls 

Grade 6 students are learning to plan, design, and build a structures to test in a simulated earthquake. They identified the materials they would use and organised the steps for completing their project. Following their design plans, they constructed structures and evaluated their strength during the simulation. 

                                                               STEM Team