OLIVIA UPDATE THURSDAY

Today I learnt for maths what centre of enlargement meant and how you work out where it is and what the scale is.

In sport I learnt how when we start off for a race how to pace myself so I don't get tired.

In science i learnt that the different temperatures of water can make alot of difference and can make different things seperate faster

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Science - what are atoms

Model of a carbon atom...

Work through these activities to learn about elements - you don't need to follow this order so can mix it up, as long as you give each activity a go:

1. Review the research we did last week and add to it - spend 5-10mins on this and make your text on the document using the suggestion tool so we know it has been added to...

Next, choose five out of the following six activities:

1. All about atoms - short reading activity. Make sure you find out about the parts of atoms...
2. Watch this crash course in the periodic table (11mins, Meg you'll live this guy I think) - take note of these aspects (clickable):
1. Mendeleev's Organization of the Periodic Table - 2:31
2. Relationships in the Periodic Table - 5:03
3. How the Periodic Table Could be Improved - 8:28
3. Who wants to be a millionaire? record your results as a comment on this post...
4. Element matching game - spend 5-10minutes on this...
5. Watch the first 10-20mins of this video and comment on these questions:
1. What are we made of?
2. Which element(s) are most common in the composition of our bodies?
3. What does 'mass' mean?
4. What happens to different elements when light is passed through them?
5. Fast forward to 43mins to learn about the relationship between the 'big bang' (theory) and how the periodic table emerged
6. Build an atom simulation - create 5-10 different atoms
7. Element balancing game - this is difficult and you may not have much experience in this, make sure you write down how to solve these sorts of equations as a comment on this post...
8. It's a gas crossword puzzle
9. Easy symbols crossword puzzle

Further viewing - origins of matter, origin of the periodic table, the story of the electron (crash course)

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Cheesy Science Video - CO2 and Temperature

For Science today we explored the relationship between levels of CO2 and temperature increase. We discussed the idea of what a hypothesis is and made connections to a similar concept in maths.

Today we conducted this search to help us understand what the thing you change in an experiment is.

This search is the search we used...

Please read the articles (using basic/intermediate level reading material) from the above search and comment what you learn on to this post. Work in pairs at the least so you can discuss.

You need to be certain of which type of variable is which in our experiment.

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Reflection - what we learned today

Today we learned:

1. That saying 'grandma' in Maori is way harder than in English - Olivia
2. Reuben did a back flip at gymnastics!
3. I am not really scared of doing a flip and failing any more - Tyler.
4. The first time I actually landed on my feet when doing a forward flip - Nathan.
5. We learned about the body parts of a fraction (Reuben). The line between the numerator and the denominator means: divided by (Nathan).
6. It was fun climbing the rope with your toes to hold on - Nathan.
7. I learned about the fear of kidney disease - Meg.
8. Today was the first time I ever did a flip! Jenny.
9. We learned about the different types of gases and the periodic table (Nathan, Jenny). The period table is a chart of the chemical elements (Meg/Nathan).
10. We wrote our first chemical formulas - it was fun because we hadn't done this before.

Some questions we have are:

1. Why do we use chemical formulas? Olivia, Jenny.

Next steps for us could be:

1. Creating more complicated chemical formulas and trying to put them together.
2. Practising a bit more our fractions skills, especially converting them from fractions, to percentages and decimals.

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Investigating a mystery substance

As part 2 of our investigation into various substances, today we spent time investigating mystery substances found on a 'crime scene'. This involved the class using the diagnostic tests they conducted last week to collaborate and deduce what the mystery substance was. Here are some photos of them working:

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