Science Roadshow

On Monday the year 5 and 6's of Kaniere school went to the Science Roadshow. The Science Roadshow was held at Hokitika Primary school. We got there just in time for our first show. Our first show was about kitchen supply's. There were also other schools there with us as well.

First of all at our first show they had squeezed a red cabbage into 5 tubs then they added random stuff to them but left one tube to see what happens. when they added the stuff to them it changed the colour of them. So cabbage juice is purple and imagine it changing colours to colours like blue, green, yellow and dark blue. At last they added a chemical that changed the colour to clear. 

After our 1st show it was time to have a look around. First of all we had to grab a little card that had a challenge on it you had to find all three things on it and then you would write your name on it and if you get picked out of a box you got a prize. The first thing that I did was I went to the wind tunnel. It was fun because it blows air on you but it doesn't blow you away and it fells really nice. I had a bit more of a look around. After that we got told to go and sit back down because they were going to do our second show.

In the second show we learnt about air pressure. The funnest bit was when Mrs Hickford was nice enough to volunteer to hop in a big plastic bag and get the air sucked out of the plastic bag. She was showing us her opening and closing her hand to show us how hard it got to open and close her hand when all of the air got sucked out. They also showed us some really hard ways to crack an egg. Like if you put your pointing finger on the top and your thump on the bottom.

Have you ever gone to a Science Roadshow?  

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Science

Today we did some  experimenting. We used milk, food colouring and dish washing liquid and made a really cool colour thing. When we added the dish washing liquid the colours went all out and spread around the plate. The colours that we used are yellow, red, blue and green. Then we figured out that the colours spread because when the milk moves they move and the milk moves because the milk has fat in it and fat does not like soap.

Autumn Leave Sun Catchers

The other day Mrs Swinburn told us to go outside and find some leaves and then we brought them in and let them dry. Then we got paper plates and painted the rim of the plates. Next we let the paint on the plates dry. After lunch we cut around out the middle of the plate. We got our leaves and then Mrs Minehan got a laminated pouch and I put my leaves in it and then laminated the leaves in the puch. After that we sellotaped the laminated leaves on to the rim of the plate. The final step was to add some string and then Miss Saddler hung them up.

Science Experiment

Today at school we did an science experiment. We put water in a cup and then we put food die in the cup and last of all we put white flowers in the cup. The flowers weren't changing that quickly so Mrs Swinburn added more food colouring. We have been waiting all day for the flowers to change colour and now they are starting to change. After the weekend when we came back to school on Monday the were mainly all coloured. Have you ever done a science experiment?