Science Roadshow

On Tuesday the 25th we went to the Science Roadshow in the school hall. We learnt about space and Chemistry. They talked for a while and then they let us go and do some science activities around the hall. My favourite activity was you had to lie down onto nails. They called us back over and did some chemistry experiments. They got different kind of chemicals and lit them on fire. There was one chemical that exploded and made a bright light. And at the end of the show they mixed chemicals together and made elephant toothpaste. 

Get NZ writing - Write your own story

• We were doing poems and sending them to an Auckland school.
• We had to do a class survey and put some of the ideas onto the class poems.
• we got put into pairs and got given a object.
• we had to describe the object using adjectives and wow words  
• we put our ideas on note.ly and copied the ideas on to a post card. 
• We put 32 post cards together at the end 

                                        

Our class poster

My object

Postcard

                                         

postcards put together

Makey Makey workshop

                 Makey Makey workshop

We went to the Makey Makey workshop  on Thursday 28th of February. Makey Makey is making music with vegetables, the vegetable we used were carrots. First we got a kit with wires and a Makey Makey keyboard. we pulled out the different coloured wires and started putting them into random places. we put wires into the Makey Makey keyboard and put the other end of wires into the carrots. We had another plug that we put in the Makey Makey keyboard and the Chromebook. We started to tap on the carrots and it made some music.

Next activity we had to do was to go on scratch and record our voices saying what we had made. you could anything you wanted to make. And the materials were, tin foil and card board. We decided to make a present with a bow on top. afterwards we had to get the Makey Makey kit out and put wires on the present we made. We couldn't figure out how to do it. after a while we had to go on the stage to present what we had done. It was our turn to go up and we achieved  nothing, the only thing we did was record our voices and make a object.

The thing I learned out of the experience was to work together and how to figure out how things work.