Milk Monstrosity

Milk Monstrosity!

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My class and I continued to learn about science today, and 

we have been learning about density. 

Density how much substance an object can hold (it's volume) along with the amount of matter in that object (it's mass). To extend our knowledge about density, we were provided with videos that elaborate on what volume and mass is. 

After we watched the videos we were set to complete a science experiment using milk which also based around density! This was the milk and food-colouring experiment.

With this project, you fill the bottom of a bowl or plate with milk then you pour a few drops of food colouring in; then you take a cotton bud with dishwashing detergent on it and it will cause a chemical reaction!

In the milk there are 2 main components: water + fat. The fat is much heavier than water so when the food colouring is added in it sits on top of the fat because the water in the colourant is lighter.
During this experiment we would have to take photos, insert them into this copied slide and write about our observations about the reaction.
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I really enjoyed this task and I did this one twice, once for the slide and a second time with my younger brothers. They were fascinated at the reaction and I taught them about why it was happening; they enjoyed the task and couldn't stop talking about it to my grandparents! 
I hope to do more hands-on science tasks like this one!

(Experiment photos and observations on slide 10/11)

MAD SCIENTIST

MAD SCIENTIST

In Te Kahu Class, we have been learning over a range of subjects such as Te Reo, History, Math, Literacy, Mindfulness and Science.

For science we were given a task to come-up with an experiment about nature, or something related to it with your chosen partner.

We were given the privilege to pick our own buddies, and the teacher supplied us with some ideas for experiments and topics if we were struggling. 

My partner is Piper, and we have been working well with each other, communicating, sharing ideas and testing.

We had to change our chosen project a few times before we settled on A Cloud In A Jar .

It was easiest to think of a question, then pick our project; our main question is "How Do Clouds Form?", so this topic was easy to find the right experiment.

After we had chosen our topic, and project the teacher assigned us to a template that we would fill in along the way of our science.

Here is what our template looks like 

(We have not presented our projects yet so we haven't filled in Analysis or Result)

Here is the link to the video we used ! Video

I enjoyed researching, testing and collaborating for science, I can't wait to present the project and I hope that next time we do science it will be just as enjoyable as this was!