Totara Science Fair

For the last 3 weeks of Term 1 and the first 2 weeks of Term 2, the Totara Hub have been working on Science Projects to share with an audience. The topics that we studied came from our camp to Mistletoe Bay and we all chose something that we were interested in.
This afternoon we opened up our classroom for visitors to come and have a look at the great work that we have done. Miss Hines is pretty proud of our efforts and we are too! We are keeping our projects up for tomorrow so our parents can pop in before school to have a look too!

Science

Today we got to complete two more Science experiments. The first one was called 'Walking Water' where we had three cups. One had coloured water in it, one was empty and the other one had a different colour in it. We then folded two paper towels and placed them in the cups and made sure that one end from each cup went into the empty cup. We started to watch what happened as the water travelled up the paper towel and wrote down our observations and hypothesis.
We can't wait to see what happens tomorrow!

Our second experiment was called 'Bending Water' and we blew up a balloon and rubbed it on our heads. We then put the balloon near a stream of water from the tap and watched the water bend and move away.

Check out our individual blogs for our hypothesis and observations!

Warter, Water Everywhere!

Today Rooms 17 and 18 had some fun with water and completed 3 science experiments. They were given the instructions of how to complete the experiment and the equipment but nothing else. Once their group completed the experiment, they had to go away and write their observations (what they saw) and a hypothesis (why they think that the water or object did what it did). Next they are going to learn the science behind each experiment. Check out their blogs in a couple of days to see what happened to the water and perhaps you could try these experiments at home too!

Wednesday Interchange

On Wednesday we are lucky enough to have interchange. Half of us did Te Reo with Hawaiki's Mum and Science with Miss Power.