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Year 5 Twisted Science Excursions
This term the Year 5’s had the opportunity to attend Twisted Science in Moorabbin.
If I'm being absolutely honest before the excursion I felt a mix of emotions and I was thinking, “What if the excursion is boring? What if we don't get to do much?” but I also felt “ Oh my goodness, what if this will be the best excursion I’ll go on? What if we get to have a bunch of fun!” As you can see I was feeling anxious, nervous, suspicious, happy and joyful. That's a lot of emotions to feel at a time.
We participated in a lot of activities. I don't know where to start. On the first part of the excursion my group leader took us to the main floor, there were a lot of activities there, it was hard to decide which one to do first. I started off by having a look around the area seeing what I could start off with. I started off by going to this bubble area. There was a big circle wand that you could dip into the mixture and when you took it out you would wave it around and create huuuuuuuuge bubbles. Next there was an area where there were a few insects, there were lizards, cockroaches, stick insects, a bearded dragon and there were more. There was an area where you could look at dead flies up close and mosquitos it was called a microscope.After I did way more activities down stairs. Afterwards, I went upstairs and I did quite a few experiments on light. Alana
On the 10th October, my year level, Grade 5, went to The Moorabbin Twisted Science Museum. I was very excited though admittedly a little bit nervous to go there. I had never been there and therefore had no idea of how much fun I was going to have.
First, we were taken to a room to be welcomed by some of the museum staff, who explained what we would be doing. We were then split into groups; my group went downstairs to do a variety of fun activities and the other group went into a lab to do some experiments for an hour. There were lots of fun scientific things to do. After that, we went back into the first room to eat. Next, my group was taken into a lab where we learned about how light worked and did some experiments.
I learnt the most when we did the experiments. We did a lot of experiments about light. I learnt that our perception of colour depends on what types of wavelengths objects absorb and reflect. For example, a red ball would reflect red wavelengths of light and absorb others. I also learnt that we only see light when it is reflected at you. Angela
In this Excursion we did a few things; First I went upstairs when we were in a lab. We learnt about how lights do, and the reflection of a mirror and we poured water in a cup, put an oreby and it disappeared because it is mainly made out of water. Next we went downstairs to an area where we could use these machines and figure out why something happened and how it happened. There were two parts; we first went to the green for half an hour then the blue. Some of the machines I participated in were when we had to pour sand in a metal holder that when we pushed it all the sand fell out. Another one was when we had to press a button when it lit up with a number on it from 0-8. Also another one was when we had to put a rope around our waist. You had a colour choice of Red, green and blue, I only did green and red because the blue was too big for my waist. Whatever colour you had you needed to clip the other end with the same colour rope for the maze. Annabelle
The excursion was super fun and interesting and I felt excited and happy the
whole time. Also it was really fun in the activities area trying everything out. Although the hardest activity was tracing the star, what you had to do was get this stick with a ball on the end and look in a mirror and trace a star. Sounds easy right, nope no one (that I know of) completed it. Charlie
I felt very happy, there was lots of equipment to interact with. The most fun part was that we could roam around and discover how lots of things work. Some of the equipment took some time to figure out how it worked but overall it was fun, there was even an upside down room and it looked extremely realistic. Daniel
We left our class at around 9:00 to take a bus to a place called TwistED Science. I was feeling excited before the trip because I'd been there before and it was really fun.
For our set of groups, we got to do the downstairs activities first. First, we were taken into one of two sections. There were a lot of fun things there, like making nitrogen bubbles, or launching paper rockets. Next, we went into another space, which had different activities, but were still pretty fun. Then, we went into the room we started in to have our recess for a bit. Finally, we switched with the other set of groups and did some experiments with light. The most interesting one is when we all dropped a gel ball into water, and it looked like it disappeared.
I was feeling very excited because I wanted to show my friends all of the cool things there. The most fun part was probably making the nitrogen bubbles, because I spent almost all my time there for the first segment. At some point, Matthew brought one of the giant bubble makers over, and I put a nitrogen bubble on it. It either fell through the bubble, or bounced without popping. He managed to trap the nitrogen bubble inside of a normal bubble as well, which was pretty cool. Ethan
On the 10th of October the Grade 5’s went to Twisted Science. On the bus, I felt a mixed feeling of being excited and nervous. When we went to the place we had to go in our groups and waited for the experienced scientists Dan, Kym and Pia. Then we went to our stations and got ready.
First we went and followed the scientist that was going to supervise us. Later one half went to the lab and did fun experiments like seeing the shadows of a toy, seeing that when you play with a orbeez in water it will disappear but if you touch it you’ll be able to feel it. Meanwhile the other half went to a fun exhibit and played with sand, making bubbles, racing cars, looking at the upside down room and so much more! After each half did the activities we would switchover and do the activity we haven't done yet.
Some of us made lots of creative things like aeroplanes, forts and rockets! The year 5’s got to unleash their inner creativity by doing activities that relate to physical science. The challenge for me was when we had to reflect a rainbow with a disc and a mini torch. After some practice I got the hang of it and started to understand the concept of the activity. Some of us had an incredible experience with the workshops and the exhibition that helped us understand some science experiments we can do at home!
For the learning it was a fun experience and I loved the way they taught us with fun experiments as we learnt new things. Personally I loved everything, especially the bubble one when you had to put a bubble all over you! One experiment was based on making music. Some of my friends and I danced and created an unusual sound!
I learnt some words from the light spectacular that there was actually a colour named UltraViolet and a radio wave that is smaller. I was amazed when white was all of the colours together and black was none of them. Then a scientist named Dan told us that there is an edge to the galaxy! Once he told us that I was in so much shock
Overall this was a fun experience and I would definitely recommend this to others as you learn and focus at the same time! I would love to go to places like Twisted Science because this experience was ten out of ten! Chloe Ng Chong Kwan
On Thursday in Week 1, Year 5 had an excursion to Twisted Science. Before the trip I had mixed feelings about it, not knowing what we would do and also not knowing what Twisted science even was.
After arriving, we got into two groups. One group went downstairs, we got to roam around the lower floor and we saw a pacman game, stackable blocks and so forth. Later, we went into the lab and did some activities and learnt about light, and colors too.
Twisted Science was a fun experience with many entertaining things, like the blocks that you could build with. But I feel like I liked the ball thing where you could make a little pathway for a ball. Unfortunately I didn't get to finish mine.
At Twisted Science, I was interested in the light and how it makes our eyes see colors. I was confused as to how the orbee (or as they called it jell balls) fell into the water and looked like they disappeared when we dropped it into the water cup. I was also fascinated by how the eye works with the muscles on each side.
At Twisted Science we learnt lots of new words like: ultraviolet, infrared, reflection, absorption , pupil, muscle, iris, sclera, light spectrum, transparent. Iris sclera and pupil muscle, which are parts of the eye that we learnt when the scientist explained how we can see colors. Also ultraviolet and infrared ,that are somethings that are invisible to the eye. We learnt that reflection is when light reflects on things and turns upside down. Fun fact, the colors we see are supposed to be upside down due to our eyes refracting the light but our brains are smart enough to flip our sight upside down. Absorption was explained to us as another reason we can see colors but on things/objects. And the word transparent is meant for something to be invisible to the human eye.
It was a fun excursion with lots of fun activities and I highly recommend having an excursion there again because there were many things I learnt and it was also fun learning those things too. I would visit Twisted Science again because I wasted some time only on one activity that I liked, because of that I didn't get to do the bubbles activity which the others were talking about. Ezra Leau
To begin with my grade went on an excursion to Twisted Science and let just say it wasn't just great it was amazing. Twisted Science was filled to the brim with cool things everywhere you could look.
Firstly when I went to school I was extremely excited to go there because the last time I was there my cousin had his birthday party there. The more and more I remembered the more excited I was when we got on the bus.
After the bus ride, when I started the first activity and went down stairs it was absolutely amazing. The first thing I did was make paper airplanes with instructions on the wall, then I loaded it onto a launcher and my paper airplane flew and hit the wall. After that I created bubbles full of nitrogen that got as big as my head, went on chairs that you could spin in, I made rockets, and discovered what light is, how it is emitted and some fun facts about light.
After a while of playing I was full of happiness and everything that I remembered about it was still there. To be honest when we did the second activity it was interesting but a bit boring with all the talking and explaining.
What I find interesting is how radio waves are just very thin pieces of light and how if anything that produces heat produces infrared light. To be completely honest I never knew how CD discs had rainbow light on it but it turns out it had tiny grooves that split white light into every other colour of light.
Most of the words they said were mostly words that are already in my vocabulary dictionary but some words like photons, infrared and wavelengths were mostly forgotten in my brain collecting dust.
To sum it up, Twisted science was absolutely amazing with loads of activities and I’d recommend it to anyone who likes fun and science, who knows you might learn something new. Eden
Twisted science was in this large building with lots and lots of cool things to touch, do and loads to learn about. Before the trip I was so excited to go, mainly because I've never gone before, but I was also excited about the experience of going there.
Twisted science had a lot of different things to do for us. Firstly, we had to wait in the blue lab for the scientist to come out and lead us to the place we were going to. Once we were shown where to go we finally saw the rooms. There were two different big areas with loads and loads of cool pisces to touch. Lastly, we went to a place called the lab and we got to do various science experiments and learnt about how the experiment worked.
While at Twisted science, I felt very happy and excited to see the new things I was about to learn, because with all the new information I learnt I can go home and share it with my friends and family. There was one very funny challenge that me and one of the parent helpers had, we were trying to figure out a difficult puzzle and it sure was… difficult. The poster said that it should only take 31 moves… and we both stopped counting at ten.
When we went to Twisted science, we all got to learn many different things, like light. When we were learning about light it really shocked me because I've never thought about how light was even created. We also learned that water magnifies things like, water will magnify a straw if you put it in water. Did you know that a mirror reflects the opposite in what you see?
A new word that I learnt whilst in the lab was sclera. The sclera protects your eye from any damage towards it. I also learnt what ultra violet means, ultra violet just means the uv indexes but in a smarter language. Ultra violet is something that the human body is not able to see because it has a shorter wavelength than infrared.
My overall thoughts on this whole excursion are definitely positive thoughts because it was such a great experience and me and my friends had lots of laughs during this. I would one hundred percent recommend this because there are a lot of odd things to do and touch. The experience there at twisted science was definitely worth going and I'd probably go again to see more different rooms. Daniella
