Young Einsteins
Semester One
Student Reflections
This Semester in Young Einsteins we learnt about Electricity and Magnetism.
Our first activity was blowing up balloons and rubbing it on our hair. The balloon lifted our hair as if we were about to be hit by lightning!
My favourite activity was when we made slime. My slime was green, but there were different colours. My slime was HUGE!! and it made my hands green.
Jesse H 3D
This Semester in Young Einsteins we have been learning about Electricity and Magnetism and these are some of the activities we did.
We made lemon batteries where we had to put copper and zinc in the lemons (on opposite sides) and create a circuit with wires, alligator clips and LED globes.
Another activity we did was making PVA slime, where you had to mix PVA glue, food colouring and Borax.
My favourite activity of all was investigating static electricity using a balloon and a metal soft drink can. I liked it because it was fun controlling a can with a balloon. Josh and l stole Jess’s can at one point. I like Young Einsteins.
Ryan E 3D
This Semester in Young Einsteins we made slime. We used PVA, food colouring and borax. We also learnt about how our ears work; the pinna catches the sound waves, then it goes through the cochlea.
My favourite activity was when we did an interactive investigation and learnt all about decibels.
Bhumika K 3D
Semester Two
This semester the Young Einsteins were involved in a number of exciting and informative science activities.
In our weekly sessions we learnt about animals, plants, insects, genetics, gravity, rocks, space and fossils.
In Term 3 we went up to the Middle Years Labs and dissected cow’s eyes and lamb’s brains. We studied the special structures of mammalian eyes and brains and discovered how each organ functions.
We got to explore a local granite quarry and collect rocks, and learnt how to collect and identify live insect specimens with Deanna.
We also enjoyed having opportunities to share our science passion and knowledge with the school, and broader community during Science Week, running special science sessions at local kindergartens and presenting at the Middle Years Science Fair.
Science Week
I was involved helping out during Science Week – l did the Robot Activity where someone says an instruction and their partner (with their eyes closed) follows them; like programming a robot. The ‘robot’ has to follow all instructions and try and work out where they have walked.
The activity was fun and exciting – because it was exciting to hear people’s feedback!!
By Natasha
Science Fair
On Tuesday 22nd November the Young Einsteins were involved in a Science Fair on Middle Years. I helped run an activity on rocks, bones and fossils. We also ran a competition were you had to answer 5 questions about fossil and rocks – one of the questions was ‘How old do the remains of animal have to be to be classified as a fossil?’ (the answer is at least 10,000 years old). The prize was a Meccano Dinosaur. People enjoyed the activity, but most got tricked when trying to identify animal bones.
I enjoyed running the activity because l knew all the answers.
By Ryan
Kinder Visits
This semester l went with some other Young Einsteins to a local kindergarten to run some special science activities. I enjoyed doing this because all the little kids got so excited when we did the experiments and activities with them. The experiments were making oobleck and learning about static electricity.
By Imad