STEM

SCIENCE WEEK WINNERS:

Thank you to all the students who entered the Science Week challenge. There were many amazing inventions and contraptions designed by our talented students at LPS. Unfortunately we could only pick 4 winners.

Congratulations to:

Tommy 1I

Ashima 2H

Olivia 4J

Georgia 4FZ

Please come to the STEM room to claim your prizes!!

STEM IN TERM 3:

Prep:

It has been an exciting time for our Prep ‘Coders’ as they have been exploring coding using the Bee-Bots! They have spent time learning the meaning of three important words including code, programmer and algorithm, and applied this new knowledge and understanding to follow and give codes to a Bee-Bot. The students were thrilled to move the Bee-Bot as fast as they could to escape the Big Bad Gruffalo, to find their name on a grid by directing the Bee-Bot accurately, find a matching picture to words on a grid and controlling their Bee-Bots to knock down bowling pins as quickly as possible! 

Sneak Peek into Term 4:

Next term in our Biological Science unit, our Prep students will make observations of living and non-living things. They will undergo investigations around the school, determining what living things can do and what they need to survive. Students will be identifying and comparing the needs of plants, animals and humans as living things, and will create an animal and plant habitat diorama using natural and recycled materials with their peers.  

Junior:

Over the past few weeks, the Junior School have been continuing to develop their understanding of coding and programming. Students have been busy designing and creating their own Bee-Bot Island. Students have spent many weeks learning directional language, as well writing algorithms and programming the Bee-Bot. Students are very excited to be taking home their Bee-Bot Islands to continue their learning with their family.

Sneak Peek into Term 4:

Next term, the Junior School will be exploring biological science. Students will be focusing on living things and identifying the external features they have to help them survive in their environment. 

Middle:

The Middle School students have enjoyed their time filming their Science video shows using the greenscreen in class. We have also been busy learning and exploring coding within our technology unit as we have been using a program called ‘Scratch’. Students have developed their knowledge and understanding of how to give and follow precise instructions. These instructions were used to create backgrounds, add sound effects, change characters and make their characters move, speak and repeat instructions.  

Sneak Peek into Term 4:

Just in time for the gorgeous spring weather, the Middle School students will turn their focus towards exploring the amazing world of Biological Science. Students will learn that living things all have certain characteristics and explore how these characteristics help us to differentiate between living and non-living things. Students will group plants and animals by their observable features (features which we can see) and will use this new knowledge and understanding to apply to a living thing of their choice, relocating it to a new (pretend) planet called ‘Planet Zog.’ 

Senior:

The Senior School students have been busy finishing off their coding unit using Scratch. Students have continued to develop their coding skills by exploring different platforms and challenges within Scratch. Some of these challenges include:

• Move a sprite using coordinates
• Use costume changes to animate a sprite
• Add in animations or effects to improve a level of interest.

Sneak Peek into Term 4:

Next term, the Senior School will turn their focus to Biological Science. Students will be exploring how living things have structural features and adaptations that help them to survive in their environments.