Following on from our electrical circuit knowledge we use to construct our electric cars, a high school science teacher visited us today to teach us about batteries. However, these were not the normal sort of batteries you would think but fruit batteries.
Using a zinc and copper nail with the acid contained in the fruit, we were able to create a flow of electricity that we measure using a voltmeter.
We then carried out an experiment to find out which fruit provide d the biggest flow of electricity.
By recording the reading on the voltmeter for different fruit, we determined that apples supplied the greatest flow of electricity through our circuit.
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Last week we had a series of whole class lessons focusing on 2D shapes, 3D objects and nets of 3D objects. After a recap on previous knowledge, we did a little bit of origami to help us recall the properties of a 3D objects.
We can keep this in the back of our Maths jitter and pop it up when we need a reminder.
Next, we had a talk about 3D objects we find in our environment and went outside with our iPads to find some evidence. When we returned to classroom we annotated out photos with the names of the 3D objects we found using the iPad’s photo markup function. Finally, we Airdropped our photos to the classroom board and discussed our findings.
This lead on to a discussion about nets of 3D objects and how we could build scaled models using a combination of different objects. The class were set the task of building Winterfang, the ice palace of the Ice Queen from our class novel.
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