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'Keeping Ourselves Safe' or K.O.S being taught from week 3.
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What Variables can you change?

This is a demonstration. To turn it into an experiment it needs one changing variable.
Here are some ideas for changing variables.

1. Different amounts of oil
2. Different amounts of salt
3. Different amounts of water
4. Change the water. (Coke, honey, vinegar etc)
5. Different amounts of food colouring
6. Different colour of food colouring
Tony, Aria, Jovita, William

1. Different amounts of salt
2. Shake it up. (Shake for 5 seconds, shake for 10seconds)
3. Different amounts of oil
4. Use bottles of different heights
5. Different amounts of water
6. Different types of oil (vegetable oil, Olive oil, Rice bran, Canola
7. Crush up a fizzy tablet and add different amounts to the salt
8. Change the water temperature
Munro, Nina, Kane, Sol


1. Different amounts of salt
2. Change the salt for (sugar, baking soda, baking powder, flour, sand)
3. Change the water. (Coke, honey, vinegar etc)
4.  Different colour of food colouring
5. Stir for different amounts of time after everything has been added
6. Crush up a fizzy tablet and add different amounts to the salt
7. Different amounts of water
8. Different amounts of oil
Evelyn, Kaden, Oliver

1.  Different amounts of oil
2. Different ways of putting the salt (Put the salt in one place, put it in two places etc)
3.  Different amounts of water
4. Add different amounts of dirt to the water
5. Different salt brands
6. Different amounts of salt
7. Change the water. (Coke, honey, vinegar etc)
8.  Different amounts of food colouring
9.  Different colour of food colouring
Thomas, Laura, Will, Sabine

Welcome Back to Term 2!

Science Inquiry

Does using more vinegar make more fizz?

Building a fizz-inflator.

Equipment:

4 teaspoons of baking soda

50ml, 100ml, 150ml and 200ml of vinegar

4 even sized and shaped vessels or bottles with a narrow neck

a funnel

A measuring cup

A teaspoon

4 balloons

measuring tape

 

Method:

Step 1:  Put a teaspoon of baking soda into each bottle

Step 2: Place the funnel in the neck of the bottle

Step 3: Measure 50ml, 100ml, 150ml, or 200ml of vinegar

Step 4: Get your balloon ready

Step 5: Get a friend to carefully pour in the vinegar, remove the funnel and quickly put the balloon around the neck of the bottle

Step 6: When the fizzing has completely stopped measure the circumference around the widest part of the balloon

Step 7: Record your results.

Step 8: Repeat with a different amount of vinegar.

Sol gets ready to measure the balloon while Michael holds the fizz-inflator steady.

Matthew assisting with the fizz-inflator.

The messy table! Miss Taylor spilled a lot of vinegar.

Home Learning

New Home Learning is going home this friday.

Term 2 Reminders

Gym

We are doing gym once a week next term. Our first session is Monday 9.30.

Cross Country

We are practising for cross country everyday.

Please come dressed appropriately each day. Comfortable shoes and pants or shorts you can run in are a must.

Sneak Preview! Science in Term Two.

Questions to consider:

What is an experiment?

What is a fair test?

What are variables?

How could we turn this cool demonstration into a fair test with one changing variable?

What would stay the same?


Please, leave comments and questions below.