Science

Crystals

Yesterday with Miss Fletcher we made crystals using hot water and sugar.  We had to dissolve the sugar in the water until it was saturated - would not dissolve any more.  We added food colouring then put our shaped pipe cleaners or string into the solution.  we have to be patient until our crystals form.

Moon Rover Lander

For science we made a Moon rover lander using only a paper cup, paper, cellotape and straws.  We were given the task of making our Moon rover land softly onto our Moon landscape so that our marsh-mellow astronauts did not fly out.

What I like best about my Moon rover is the spring made by paper on the bottom. It helped my rover land gently.

What I needed to modify on my Moon lander rover was adding a parachute.

One thing I learned about landing on the Moon was that it needed a parachute to slow the landing down.

Here is a picture of my Moon rover landing on our school’s Moon surface.  I hope you like it!

STEAM activities

We have been doing Makerspace about the Living World. Yesterday I made insects out of materials like nuts, bolts and arts and crafts.

I made a video using Imovie about finding bugs in our school.

Bug Hotel

We have been separated into even groups. I was separated into the group that was making the bug hotel. A bug hotel is like a home for bugs. Here are some photos.  The first one is of a bug hotel and the second photo is my group making our own special bug hotel.