Science Professional Development at the Royal Society

Cockle Bay was invited to attend a Science planning meeting at the Royal Society in Wellington as part of the Science Teaching Leadership Programme.  Science will be given an even greater focus as phase two of the programme is implemented over the next 18 months.

Squidgy Circuits - Junior Science Club

Junior Science Club members were just as proficient as the Seniors at making simple closed electrical circuits
using conductive play dough, battery packs, LEDs and buzzers.  They could explain how electricity can only go
 one way (what scientists call directionality) and swapped LEDs and buzzers (resistors) around if they did not go.

Squidgy Circuits - Senior Science Club

Senior Science Club members were the first people in the whole school to use squidgy circuits to
 investigate electricity.  Through exploration, they found out how to make a simple open circuit,
and how to use buzzers and LEDs to make it into a a closed circuit

Science Club Presents at School Assembly

In Term 2, the Senior Science Club showed how insoluble solutions with different density made
 distinct layers, and the Junior Science Club wowed the crowd with their foaming monsters!

Demonstrating Density

Different liquids have different densities, and so the solutions
 with lighter density sit on top of those withe heavier density.

Foaming Monsters

The chemicals were wrapped in tissue, and so they reacted with the liquid at different times, as the tissue
got soggy and broke down.  You never knew which monster was going to foam up first and for how long!

Balloon Rockets Are Go!

Senior Science Club were so proficient at firing balloon rockets that they extended their range.  Their balloon
rockets went from one end of the classroom to the other AND then travel through the window outside!