The Concept for Term 3 was ‘Investigators’. Room 21 and Room 13 buddied up and shared
their learning together. They had lots
of fun doing various experiments. They
became awesome investigators.
The Learners used the P.O.E. thinking tool to talk about
their experiments. They learnt to
predict, observe and explain about their experiments.
Here are some of the experiments they did:
Colour Mixing
Learning Intention: We are learning about mixing colours.
·
Name
the 3 primary colours.
·
How
do you make orange?
·
How
do you make green?
·
How
do you make purple?
·
What do you do to make new colours?
Observe and see what is happening
Floating egg –
experiment
Learning Intention: We are learning about floating an egg.
There were 3 containers.
What would happen to the egg when they were put in each container? Learners were encouraged to predict what would
happen.
1.
Describe what happened to the eggs.
2.
What made the difference to the eggs?
3.
Why did it make the difference to the eggs?
4.
What is different about the water?
5.
How can you make the egg float in the middle?
Balloon experiment
Learning Intention:
We are learning about blowing up the balloon.
P – Predict
(Learners made a guess about what is going to happen)
We have Vinegar, baking soda and balloons.
What are we going to do next?
·
Stir it
·
Make an explosion
·
Put water in the bottle
·
Use the measuring cups
What will happen with the baking powder and vinegar?
·
It will explode
·
It can blow up
·
It can change colours
O – Observe
(Learners looked at what’s happening and questioned)
·
There’s different vinegar
·
Vinegar went into the balloon
·
Balloon went pop
·
Vinegar went up and balloon went up
·
Balloon went up when the bubbles went up
·
Put the vinegar in the bottle
·
Balloon went bigger
·
Balloon was growing
E – Explain
(Learners explained what happened)
·
The baking soda was in the balloon
·
The vinegar was in the bottle
·
Then the baking soda was tipped into the vinegar
in the bottle
·
The balloon was filled up with bubbles from the
baking soda. It was gas. It blow
up. There’s air in the balloon.
