Sophie spotted Richie out dining

The Bonis family went out to celebrate Sophie's birthday last night and look who they spotted?

Science Friction

Yesterday Room 26 had their Science Alive session. We learnt all about forces.

Did you know that a scientist named Sir Isaac Newton came up with 3 laws for motion?

We learnt about these 3 laws:

1st law of motion is:  You need a force to move something - a push or a pull
2nd law of motion is: The bigger an object, the bigger the force needed to move it
3rd law of motion is: That there is an opposite and equal reaction for every motion - e.g. a balloon moves the opposite direction to the air that comes out of it.

We did a few experiments to learn about these laws.

Piper using the Newton to measure the force it takes to pull a shoe across the carpet

Tom and Jamie using the Newton to measure the force to pull a rubber band some many centimetres.

Safiya and Ella measuring the force it takes to move my keys across the desk.

Thomas and Ibrahim balancing their force.

Making their car to see Newton's 3rd law of motion in action.

Player of the Day

This weekend Issy was named player of the day in her netball team. She did some great defending, marking and even made some intercepts. Well done Issy!

Glorious Gobstoppers

THE EXPERIMENT

What you need: 

m&ms, cup water, see through container

What to do:

Put 4 m&ms into the centre of the container but they can't touch each other.

Fill with water

Observations:

We saw that the m&ms colour sunk to the bottom of the container and that if you covered the m&ms fully with water the m's floated off! 

We also saw that the colours didn't mix and stayed in sections in the container.

Questions from the investigation:

What would happen if the m&ms touched?

What would happen if you added more m&ms?

What would happen if you changed the temperature of the water?

Would the same thing happen with different types of lollies?