Chido and Chiedza Making Fizzy Lemonade

Chido and Chiedeza tried some science today by making Fizzy Lemonade. This is such a fun video to watch.    Link to the video

Alice During Lockdown

Alicee has been busy during lockdown not only getting better after having the chicken pox but then looking after her mum because she then got the chicken pox. During this time she still managed to do some science, cook some wonderful meals but also do an act of kindness for the mail person. Here are some photos of her lockdown experiences:

Logan Is A Scientist!

Yesterday Logan gave one of the science challenges a go and he completed this under the supervision of Skittles....the cat!

Grey High School Science Club Comes to Awahono!

 Today the students in Rm 5 were given a wonderful opportunity as the Greymouth High School Science Club came out to Awahono School to share some kitchen science with us.  There were 3 experiments that we got try one was making sherbert, one was looking at what fruit has the most acid and one was looking whether liquids were acidic, base or neutral. 

This was such a cool experience for everyone and we intend to develop our learning around this even more.

Funday Friday - The Science Behind Cooking Popcorn

 For Funday Friday today we tried cooking popcorn in a variety of ways.  The children made a prediction about whether they would be able to taste the difference in the different ways we had cooked the popcorn.  We cook 2 lots on the stove top, 1 using butter and 1 using oil.  We then cooked 3 lots in the microwave, 1 using butter, 1 using oil and 1 with nothing.

The children had to sample all 5 bowls of popcorn and had to see if they could prediction which method was used to cook it.

It was a lot harder to tell than they first thought!  On a side not the best way to get super fluffy popcorn was to cook it in the microwave using not butter or oil!!

It was also a surprise to me to find out that a large number of our children had never cook popcorn on the stove top before.

Food For Thought

 Today we were incredibly lucky to have Brittany from Foodstuffs who runs the 'Food for Thought' program.  Brittany worked with the children in Room 5 today to learn about food, nutrition, how to read food labels and how much of the different foods our bodies need.

This was some real world learning not just for the children but for me as the teacher too!  I am 38 and only just got a good understanding of how food labels work and what we should look for when reading food labels.  Make sure you sit down with your children and get them to teacher you about food and the labels that are on our food as they are true experts now!

State Of Matter - Making Butter

 As we continue to develop our topic: 'The Science Behind Our Food' we have been looking at how one product can be turned into a number of different products using science.  Today we looked at how we can turn cream into butter and butter milk.  

The children did this by putting 1 cup of full cream into a jar and sharing it until if goes from a liquid state to a solid state.  Then of course the children had to try this new product they had made and what better way to do that than with Superwine biscuits!

 

End of Week 1 of Remote Learning

Well the Room 5 children have risen to the challenge of remote learning with such enthusiasm and I have been so proud of what they have achieved in their bubbles.

Today for Funday Friday we had a science theme around baking soda using other cooking ingredients that are in the kitchen.

Here is Indea-May doing her experiment:

I highly recommend visiting Inshirah's blog where she shows that not only could she be a TV presenter but she is also a very confident mathematician. 

https://awahonoinshirahh.blogspot.com/2020/04/cracking-code.html

Annabelle, Amelia and Tom did the balloon baking soda.  Both were really successful. 

Chido gave the honey comb a try and said it tasted delish!!

Once again I just can't say how proud I am of all the children in Rm 5 for showing resilience, responsibility and respect for this history making situation!

Our Mold Investigation

Today we took the final part of our germ investigation to the next level!  We used both digital and old school microscopes to look at the different types of mold (and yes we took all the proper health precautions).  The children loved every minute of this process and between being grossed out and intrigued they were able to form 2 questions that they are going away to research.

Why are there different types of mold and what are those types of mold?

How can we tell what molds are good and what molds are bad?

Check out their personal blogs over the next week to find out what they found out from their research.