Science

L.I to Learn about science

From this term we moved on to a new tech rotation which was science, out teacher was Mrs' Sharma. This week our topic was being a scientist, this is where we learnt about the equipment in science like the measuring beaker, test tubes, Bunsen burner,etc. We got our own books to record our projects on. Since our topic was scientists we talked about what do you know about scientists, what do scientists do and have you ever thought about being a scientist. For our task we also asked a question about science, my question was how the sun was created.

Famous scientists

For our distance learning this week for reading we did some research on famous scientist. For our reading topic this term we are talking about “What is Science”. We didn’t do any random scientist we could find, we were tasked at finding famous scientist that study/studied one of the four branches of science (geology/astronomy, chemistry, biology  & physics). For physics we chose Albert Einstein, for biology we chose Charles Darwin, for geology/astronomy we chose Charles Lyell, and lastly for chemistry we chose Ernest Rutherford. We also used a question dice to help us find a question to answer for the scientist (e.g: What are they known for?  Why did they study biology?).  We made an interactive slideshow having the main information about the scientist we chose.

Science summary

L.I: To summarize the information.

This week for reading our focus is science. For this second activity my group and I skimmed and scanned our notes and shared ideas to create a collaborative summary explaining ‘what is science?
 We divided our lengthy summary into 3 following paragraphs: an introduction on science, the 4 main categories of science and the two types of science. We used a question dice that helped us with our learning and made us ask questions to help us think about our subject and provide ideas for our summary.

Science

LI: to find our 3 most vital ideas from the information answering the question 'What is Science'

This week for reading our focus is science. In groups we watched a YouTube video explaining physics, chemistry, and biology (the things that are connected to it) and why science is important to us. After watching it twice, my group and I wrote down notes about some of the information that we took and remember from the video. We negotiated on the most important 7 of the notes to separate from the rest. We left 4 of those notes as ‘very important ideas’ and picked out our 3 vital ideas.  In our opinion we thought that the 3 most vital ideas were:

1. Science is divided into 3 branches, Physics, Biology, and Chemistry. 
2. Basic science is knowing something and applied science is using what we know. 
3. Science is the knowledge behind every question. 

Kiwrious

L.I to find the most effective UV filter


LS2 have been trialing the electronics sensors for the Kiwrious project. We are working with with Suranga, Sonia, Evan, Dawn and Yevon from Auckland university. Our task was to keep the Zally which is a fictional creature safe, in order for it to grow we had to expose it to white light but it was allergic to UV light.  We tests different materials to see which let in the most light and the least UV light.