Science Week 10

The Early Years classes were amazed to see the fizzy solution that resulted from mixing bi-carb soda with vinegar. The addition of food colouring created a delightful visual display. The students then created a craft collage by choosing paper cut outs to make their own cupcake picture.

Primary classes explored how to change the state of a material by heating, cooling or wetting it. They discovered that raw spaghetti is hard and rigid, but cooked spaghetti is soft and flexible. They enjoyed a craft activity using cooked spaghetti to make hair.

The secondary students made Magic Mud by combining cornflour and water. Not quite a solid, but also not really a liquid, the mixture had the characteristic of both a liquid and a solid, depending on how it was being squeezed between their fingers. Touching such a strange texture was quite challenging for some students.

Miss Elizabeth