Hello and welcome to our Class Blog. Our teacher is Mrs Hussain :)
We found that the white bread went mouldy first, followed by the 50/50. We are still waiting for the brown bread to mould.
This is what most of the class had predicted would happen. As predicted the dirty hand went mouldy first then the clean hand and the control.
Challenge- To build the tallest freestanding tower in 25 minutes using 20 stick of spaghetti, 1 metre of tape and 1 metre of string.
Problem-The tower has to hold a marshmallow at the top.
We used teamwork, communication, co-operation and various problem solving strategies to create the most successful tower.
The winning tower was…….41 cm tall!
Today we went out to bounce eggs as a continuation from our science fair last week.
We are ready for our science fair!
We had lots of visitors and a very busy morning!
Today we did an experiment, where we put different levels of yeast and sugar in bottles to see what combinations would release the most carbon dioxide and make the balloons the biggest.
We found adding more sugar didn’t make a difference but adding more yeast made a big difference.
The balloons are still getting bigger and everyone in the class is excited to see how big the balloons grow over the weekend.
Today we did a yeast investigation, to see what temperature is the optimum condition for yeast to work. We used cold water, warm water and boiling hot water.
The sugar and the yeast have started to react and the balloons are still getting filled with carbon dioxide. Everyone in the class are excited to see how big the balloons grow over night!
Today we set up an experiment to see which bread will go mouldy first.
We wanted to find out if the different types of bread would make a difference.
We also changed some of the conditions so see which variable will mould first. Wet/light, wet/dark, dry/light and dry /dark.
Watch this space!
Today we took part in some Heartstart training.
Today we learned about biodiversity. We discussed the terminology for this topic – ecosystem, environment, habitat, producers, primary and secondary consumers, prey, predators, herbivores, carnivores and omnivores. We then looked at food chains and webs. The arrow points up the food chain showing the transfer of energy from one plant or animal to the animal eating it.
We then investigated our environment and the many ecosystems and habitats that could be found in the school. We looked for evidence of food chains and ecosystems at the banking, the scottish garden, sensory garden and around the new science garden. There are bug hotels, worm farms and ant habitats built around our school. We also found numerous insects, snails, slugs, bees, bees and little bites in leaves to show they had been eaten. We passed around the class camera recording the evidence we found.
