Static Electricity - Inquiry

You will need:
a pen, a piece of tissue, a jersey

Method
Take a pen. Rub it on a jersey or through your hair ten times. Use the pen to pick up the piece of tissue paper.

Result
The tissue paper should 'stick' to the pen for a short amount of time. This is static electricity.

This is what Séamus wrote:
We did some science in Room 3 with tissue paper and a red pen. We combed the red pen through our hair. We put the red pen on the tissue paper. Then we lifted the tissue paper with the pen. Then it fell down because it lost energy.

Construction - Making Pompoms

We are making pompoms. How do you make pompoms?

You need two pieces of cardboard and lots of wool. We got the two cardboard circles with holes in the middle and then we had to wind the wool around the cardboard, in and out of the hole. We will cut it when its finished.
Brooklyn F

















Miss Swney cut circles with holes in the middle of them. There were 46 circles. We had wool for the pompoms. We had to wind the wool around through the hole in the middle. We started on Friday. When we are finished we are going to use them for sport in Room 3.
Breyah



















Room 3 made pompoms. We had two pieces of cardboard. They were a circle shape with holes in the middle. We threaded the wool through the holes. The wool felt soft and cuddly. The colours were pink and lots of others.
Emma

Inquiry -- Mix and Move

Using two glasses, we placed a couple of teaspoons of salt in one and a couple of drops of red food colouring in the other. Then we poured warm tap water into both glasses. The tap water with the salt in it needed to be stirred until the salt had dissolved.

"Dissolving is when the salt disappears into the water, like it melts". Reid

When the salt had dissolved we poured some of the food colouring water into the salted water.

The food colouring mix dispersed throughout the salted water and then it rose to the top of the salted water and stayed there.




We found that the coloured tap water moved to the top of the salted water because salt water is heavier than tap water.