STEM & Kitchen Garden

This week students continued to investigate mixtures and reactions with a variety of materials.

Foundation students made a skittle rainbow where they watched colours mix and investigated how detergent made food dye move across the surface of milk. 

Years one and two separated mixtures using chromatography with black ink and filter paper and made a rainbow in a jar using sugar solutions of different densities.

Year threes grew Epsom salt crystals and investigated heat producing reactions.

Year four students completed their robot car construction and constructed a black line track for the car to follow. Thank you to Yen and the team from the Fr. Bob McGuire Foundation who assist every Thursday morning during STEM sessions.

Years five and six students designed an investigation to see how fast effervescent tablets dissolve under different conditions and made acid-base indicator strips using an indicator solution made from red cabbage. 

In the kitchen Years one and two learnt about ancient grains and yeast reactions. They made a quick 60-minute French yeast bread loaf and some tomato soup to enjoy with it.