Science at BPS

Term 4, Week 2

What a term in Science!! We have been very busy with our Chemical Science unit, learning about states of matter and chemical and physical reactions. It has been fabulous to see the looks of amazement on student faces as they have witnessed mixtures and small explosions! 

 

Foundation students have been working on predictions and observations all term. They have completed many experiments, including what 100 drops of water looks like, mixing bicarbonate soda and vinegar together, making pancakes, making their own bubble mixture, air dry clay, salt painting and invisible ink. 

 

Year 1 and 2 students have also been working on prediction and observations, but they have also started to record procedures and their wonderings around why certain things happen. Students have completed many experiment including melting ice with salt, finding out what substances are soluble and insoluble, physical changes of paper, formation of a solid, making salt crystals, dancing corn and air dry clay. Students can now identify the difference between a solid, a liquid and a gas and how these can each be produced. 

 

In Year 3 and 4, students have been working on asking questions and making predictions. They have begun to look at the analytically side of Science skills, finding out why things happen the way they do. We have working on chemical reactions between solids and liquids and how we can make gases to blow up balloons. Students looked at the Science behind ooblek, making an almighty but very fun mess in the Science room! We grew borax crystals and looked at what elements make a solid soluble. Near the end of the term we have investigated endothermic and exothermic reactions and we will finish the term by making honeycomb, a fabulous science in the kitchen experiment!

 

Year 5 and 6 students have spent the term asking scientific questions and learning how to evaluate their results. Students have made bread, ooblek, slime and bouncy balls, all to varying degrees of success! 

 

We also all had a great time making fizzy Olympic rings during the Olympics, using bicarb soda, vinegar and paint.

 

I am looking forward to a slightly less messy term in Science to round out our first year at Blackburn Primary School. Foundation to Year 4 students will be looking at the Earth and Space Science understandings and Year 5 and 6 students will be learning about light.