Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Bubbles, bubbles everywhere!

Last Wednesday afternoon Room 2 made a huge bubbly mess.  It was all in the aid of science.  Read Aden's recount of the bubbly experience below.

Yesterday after lunch I blew bubbles and it was fun.  I did it outside Room 2.  I made a HUGE bubble and it was bigger than my shoe.  It was AMAZING.  I learned more about bubbles.

by Aden




We had a lot of fun blowing bubbles and tried to come up with questions about bubbles.  Around the photos are some of the great questions that some people in the class asked about bubbles to find out things we don't know yet.

Why is it so hard to blow bubbles out of the straw?

How do they pop?

What colour are they?


How do bubbles blow up real big?

Why is it all fluffy at the top?




Why can bubbles be big and small?
When can you blow bubbles?

Why can't you taste it?


How do the bubbles get air?

How do bubbles get into a round circle?



Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Science is Cool!

Last Tuesday four scientists came to visit.  Esther, Bianca, Sam and Joe helped us make lots of strange noises with Airzookas, straw oboes, an echo box, bottles of water and a coat hanger and a fork! 





We look a bit strange with our fingers in our ears but that's the way to hear the loudest noise when you tap the coat hanger with the fork.  Steven said it's because the sound goes up the string and into your ears.  Wow Steven.  That's really cool scientific thinking!




Zane is holding an echo box.  We had to wobble it around and it made some VERY loud noises bounce out of the box and hurt Arleyah's ears!
Luke, Mina, Cairo (and Dakota from Room 3) are playing Straw Oboes.  It was really hard to get the sound that Joe demonstrated but some of us managed.  When we got it right, it sounded like a room full of angry ducks!

These are Airzookas.  Come back and read the blog again because we hope that there will be some great recounts of how we made them.


This was hard too.  We blew gently across the top of the bottles and the bottles made different sounds because there was more water in some of them. 
We also made Ice Cream.  It only took a few minutes and it was YUMMY!  We're going to write some recounts about that too so you know how to make it.  But there was a secret ingredient that you probably can't buy so you will probably just have to buy your ice cream at the supermarket.

See you soon.
Room 2