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Students experimented with making Kinetic sand today. They used sand, cornstarch, food colouring and silicone. They then mixed it altogether. Their next step is to see what they can build and create from the material.
This is the beginnings of the Year 10's prototype of a catapult. The plan is to design this in a bigger format with stronger materials.
These pictures show our Year 8's working on designing mechanisms for rubber band projectiles.
DAY TWO
DAY TWO
Today saw a few chemical reactions take place in the world of Discovery.
- dry ice
- elephant toothpaste
- oobleck
20181122_115253.mp4After researching the parts of a rat two students gloved up and dissected a rat!! They spent the day identifying the different organs and their functions. They were even able to analyse the cells further under a microscope
For the past couple of weeks we have had a year 10 girl perfecting the process of making her own perfumes. Through the use of essential oils, concentrated ethanol and the various scents she has brought she made a number of different perfumes
We have a couple of different volcanoes being made using different different supplies and different chemicals to make them explode!
DAY THREE: FINAL DOING DAY
DAY THREE: FINAL DOING DAY
The Kinetic Sand group finally got three products made - each of them were of different consistency. The red one in the right hand corner was more like a gloop and didn't hold together as well as they wanted.
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