Grade 1 Area
Mrs Amy Gagliardi, Ms Emily Giliam and Ms Elizabeth Higham and Mrs Sarah Castellas
Grade 1 ‘Hands On Science’ Incursion
This term, the grade 1 classes have been learning about ‘Weather’ in Discovery.
On Tuesday 21st May, all of the Grade 1 classes participated in a “Hands On Science” incursion.
The Learning Outcomes for the Incursion included:
- Students study how the weather works.
- Students explore the movement of water and air in relation to the sun and Earth.
- They investigate changes in the sky and landscape.
Students explored these Learning Outcomes through a number of different activities and experiments. These included:
- Discussing prior knowledge of weather.
- Observing evaporation and condensation in action.
- Modelling transpiration to explore the role of plants in the water cycle.
- Modelling rain clouds to understand how rain falls.
- Observing a hot air balloon and discussing how it relates to air movement.
- Using water droplets to model rain, and explore the effect on different landscapes.
- Exploring how temperature differences cause air and water to move up and down.
- Exploring wind strength/ direction and how to measure it.
- Experimenting with a ‘tornado in a bottle’ to understand cyclonic movement.
Here are some photos of our amazing incursion:
