Monday, 19 June 2017

Visiting Auckland Zoo

We all had time to explore the zoo with all its different animals.
Here are a couple of favourites. 


Every class went to an outdoor classroom to learn about different animals.

Sunday, 18 June 2017

Slime





Slime certainly has some unusual properties!

Ocean in a Bottle



You couldn't make the oil and water mix, however hard you tried!

You could make big waves in your bottle.


Making Crystals

We made a saturated solution with Epsom Salts and water.  Then spooned it onto card.
After a week, when we looked again, we saw long clear crystals attached to our circles of card.

Lava Lamps - Junior Science Club

We used salt, oil and coloured water to make our lava lamps.
We used a torch so we could watch what was happening closely! 







Lava Lamps - Senior Science Club




When is an egg not an egg? When it's a floater!

Meanwhile, Senior Science Club investigated how salt changes the density
of the water so that some things (like raw eggs) can float