Science week
To celebrate Science Week local primary students worked collaboratively in teams with Year 7 students. We were very impressed with their creativity, ingenuity and problem solving skills. They all completed a student journal to define the problem, devise their solutions and record their data.
Students participated in engineering challenges including to design, build and test:
– an earthquake-resistant building
– a way of moving tomatoes that won’t squash them
– a model wind turbine
– a model bridge to help a company deliver disaster relief after an earthquake
– a balloon race car.
Students became citizen scientists and recorded, analysed and predicted coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef to support scientists’ research to protect the reef.
We also made bath bombs at lunchtime! We learned that citric acid and bicarb are responsible for bubbly reaction that make these treats so much fun in the bath.
In case anyone is interested… the recipe we used:
1) Mix dry ingredients (2tbs bicarb, 1tbs cornstarch, 1tbs citric acid, 1tbs salt [we used table salt but use Epson salts to make your bath bombs more therapeutic]);
2) Mix wet ingredients (1/4tsp fragrance, 1/2tsp oil, food colouring);
3) Mix wet and dry ingredients and add sprays of water until a wet sand consistency achieved;
4) Press firmly into mold;
5) Tap out of mold and allow to dry for 2 days.
Denise Raven
Science KLA Head
