Room 26's Class Blog

   Ethan and Rikhil have been tuning into the Nano Girl science activities in the afternoon. They have been able to prove floatation and gravity following her instructions. Here are some photos of Rikhil's boat and Ethan conducting his experiment.

All  Lockdown  Zoom  times  from  Monday  30  August  onward  have  been  posted  on  our  Distance  Learning  page https://sites.google.com/newwindsor.school.nz/room17slearningsite/home Click  on  the  link  buttons  under  the  time  slots  for  the   9.30am  or   11.30am  Zoom  meetings

 

  Room 17 Shared Writing It was a hot dusty day in the desert. The sun shone down on the brown bumpy ground. I could smell burnt grass and fragrant flowers. When I touched the spiky cactus my hand got stung. My mouth was watering but the only thing I could taste was my disgusting saliva. I heard the birds singing softly and crows learning how to caw. When I kicked the ground, the dirt went in my eye and my eye started to itch and burn very badly. As I felt the dust blowing around me, I decided to go back home to clean my eye.

  Room 17 have been challenged to find different ways to show how many sweet treats Mr Henderson had left for his class rewards. Ethan explored frequency and tally charts, Cyrus showed his findings in a bar graph, and Joshua showed a range of display solutions. Rikhil showed his artistic abilities to create a visual record for our upcoming Jean Batten inquiry. We're also looking forward to the class sharing their discoveries about aerodynamics for their online science activities, having found out about gravity, air resistance and motion forces just before lockdown.

 Today Nano Girl, our NZ Science expert is relaunching her site for Science and Stem activites during lock down. If you are interested just click her to her Facebook page Link   or here for her You Tube channel link  at 3.30pm most days.

Aerodynamics - does size or shape matter?     Record what you found on your padlet After experimenting with a range of shapes and sizes, record your ideas on if it affects the fall of an object's aerodynamics.

  After talking about Gravity as a force, we started talking about how air resistance might be used to slow down the drop. Using tissue paper, raffia string and pipe cleaners to make our parachute stickman these are our results.  Pretty much we have worked out that the parachute creates a wind drag that slows the speed of an object falling because of gravity.

 

 We have made beautiful artwork ready to be made into calendars and other items for families to purchase. Look out for a note home about this in the coming weeks.