Team Moana 2021

What a busy term it has been and it's already the end of Week 5. Team Moana have been really busy getting their heads around our science unit based on the classification of life forms. We learned that living things all carry out seven processes and that you can remember them by using the acronym MRS GREN. This stands for Movement, Respiration, Sensitivity, Growth, Reproduction, Excretion and Nutrition. We decided to do an experiment to see if plants really do respire. The scientists say that plants take carbon dioxide from the air, use it inside their cells to grow, and release some oxygen back into the air as they don't need all of it. We tested this hypothesis by putting leaves in warm water for a few hours. If it was true, we should see little bubbles of oxygen forming on the surface of the leaves. It worked!!!! It was very cool!! Ariana took this very good photo using an iPad so now we have proof that our experiment worked. We don't know why the bubbles are only on...

What a fantastic day we had - well actually the whole two weeks leading up to the Science Fair has been great.  So much learning!! Room 2, year 5 and 6 students first had to choose a scientist to study - the scientist had to have an invention relating to Physics that the students could talk about.  Their study had to demonstrate what the scientist discovered or invented and some facts about the scientist. Part 2 of their study was to recreate one of their scientists inventions, demonstrating how it related to what the scientist originally invented or discovered. Using their Science report structure they also had to write up their experiment, stating their question, thesis and hypothesis.  These you will be able to see on each individual's Blogs, along with pics and videos of their experiments. Quite a few of the experiments did not actually work - but what great learning we had.  Everybody persevered and put in a lot of effort to modify and look at how they could...