What do the parts of a plant do?
Article 28—Children have the right to an education.
We have been finding out about the parts of plants and what role they have in the reproduction of that plant.
We had a diagram to fill in but the answers were hidden around the classroom!
Reversible and Irreversible Changes!
Article 28—Every child has the right to an education.
We initially explored the terms ‘Reversible’ and Irreversible in relation to materials. Reversible means that a material can be changed but you can still change it back to its original state.
An irreversible change means that once the material has been changed it can’t be changed back e.g. once an egg has been cooked it can never return to its original state.
We explored what would happen if we mixed milk and vinegar together. It smelt really bad but we were surprised to see that a new material was created—casein. This is a form of plastic. It was used during World War 2 to create small plastic pieces for example buttons.
The Absorbency test
Article 28 – Children have the right to an education.
The first job was to predict what we thought might happen.
We made sure the test was a fair test by keeping everything the same except the thing that we were measuring—the absorbency of different materials
Some of the materials were not absorbent at all. The dish cloth was very absorbent which most of us predicted!
Science – Water Resistance Investigation
Article 28—Every child has the right to an education.
We explored the effects of water resistance when creating some simple foil boats. We wanted to test each boat by adding passengers and their luggage! The best boats held over 70 Lego characters and 5 grams of luggage per passenger!
We were quite shocked at how much the best boats could hold. The larger the surface area of the boat the greater the water resistance and the ability to carry a larger weight.
Chemical reactions and Light Experiment
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This was session 2 of our Science visits to Bishop Barrington Secondary School. We initially observed some chemical reactions! It was very exciting! We then got to experiment with light and explore how light reflects!
Helicopter Investigation
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We initially discussed what was happening when a paper helicopter was dropped. We noticed that gravity was pulling it down but air resistance was slowing it down. We wanted to find out if the size of the helicopter affected the time it would take for the helicopter to hit the ground. We collected our data in a table and then drew a conclusion from our results.
Science at Bishop Barrington (Adaptation)
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This was session 1 of our Science visits to Bishop Barrington Secondary School. We focused on the topic of Adaptation and compared the suitability of an Axolotl to its habitat alongside comparisons between a human and then Axolotl. It was really interesting!
Dental Nurse Visit
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Dental health is very important and today’s visit from the Dental Nurse helped to reinforce the need to look after our teeth. We looked at the kind of foods that we eat as well as techniques to brush our teeth well.
Sun Dials
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As part of our Science work we investigated the movement of the sun by studying sun dials and then by making our own. We plotted the position of a shadow at different times of the day and were then able to predict the time using the sun dials that we created. It was important to place our sun dials North and so we also played a game to practice the positions of the compass.
The Planets
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Our task was to find all 8 planets hidden around the classroom. We had to find interesting facts about each of the planets in our Solar System. The planets were numbered which helped us to identify the planets in order starting with the one closest to the Sun.
