STEAM 

STEAM 

National Science Week is coming! From 13th – 21st of August, Australia celebrates science and technology. This year's theme is Glass: More than Meets the Eye. We will be celebrating the week with a whole school incursion and special science lessons in STEAM. Keep an eye out for more information.  

F/1 

To tie in with the whole school production, the F/1 students have been understanding light, sound and music from a scientific point of view. They have used their senses to explore sounds and light in their environment and understand that sounds are made from vibrations. We have also started exploring chemical science and material properties. Students have sorted objects into different categories depending on their properties. They will continue to investigate the properties of materials and the sounds that different materials make. The will use this information to choose the best materials to make musical instruments later in the term. 

2/3 

Students completed kinetic arts projects from last term. They did a fantastic job of applying what they had learned about forces, using ramps, levers and dominoes to make moving sculptures. This term, we are shifting our focus to chemicals sciences. Students are conducting fair tests to answer questions like “How much weight can different materials hold before it breaks?” and “Will a material stretch, tear or snap when pulled?” Students will then use this understanding of materials and their properties to make props and costumes for their items in the whole school production.  

4/5/6 

We have started the term off looking at coding. Students understood that an algorithm is a set of instructions through an unplugged activity, where they programmed a “cup stacking robot”. They then moved on to real robots and have been using the Lego Spike program to use block coding. Students have been able to make their robots move, make sounds and light up. They have learned how to use certain blocks within the program such as the “repeat” command and the “if/then” command to make their code more efficient. Students will apply these skills later in the term to create animated backdrops for the school’s production.