Science

Year 3&4 

The Year 3&4 students have continued to explore materials and their properties through engaging in hands-on investigations. Students explored the tensile strength of materials (paper, tissue, plastic and rubber) by seeing if the material would snap, tear or stretch when moved in a particular way.  The Year 3 & 4 students also started to investigate which material (plastic, fleece or cotton) is the best insulator by wrapping each material around a soft drink can containing warm water and recording the temperature. 

Year 5&6 

Over the last few weeks students as part of their kitchen chemistry unit have continued to learn about physical and chemical changes. Students dissolved sugar in water to create  delicious lemonade and learned how dissolving sugar and water is a physical change. Year 5 & 6 students also cooked pancakes to observe how cooking is an example of an irreversible change.

National Science Week

On Friday the 16th of August students from Foundation to Year 6 participated in different STEM activities to explore the national Science Week theme ‘Species Survival - More than just sustainability’. 

Students…

• Made wind-powered cars 
• Participated in balloon rocket races 
• Created grass heads 
• Designed water filters to clean water 
• Explored how some bugs walk on water and made their own water bug 
• Launched rockets 
• Explored how different animals see the world

The day concluded with a whole school assembly to celebrate the day. Congratulations to the recipients of the Karoo STEM Day awards.