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Making Spaghetti Towers in Science.
Making Towers with Spaghetti & Marshmallews on PhotoPeach
We discovered while working with cooked and uncooked spaghetti that it can’t be changed back once it has been cooked.
We made a word chain about how the spaghetti changed.
Uncooked Spaghetti – hard – sharp – cook – cooked spaghetti – sticky – soft – can’t be changed back.
Words we brainstormed to describe uncooked spaghetti are :
*straight *hard *dry *breakable *thin *a little bendy *rigid *messy
I made this face.
I used a paper plate to make this face. It has a big green mouth, a blue nose, two pink eyes and lots of hair.
Submarines and Divers
We made these creative submarines and divers to travel under the sea.
First we drew designs of our vessels or divers.
Next we found the materials we would need.
We glued rectangular prisms, cones and cylinders together using strong glue and masking tape.
We then had to cover the whole creation with white paper. This step made the model very strong and also gave a good surface to paint.
Finally we painted our vessels and divers and added the finishing touches.
In Term 4 we will be using our submarines and deep sea divers to go DEEP, DEEP into the abyss and travel back in time to when dinosaurs roamed the earth.
We can’t wait for this adventure to begin!
What do you think we will see and hear?
Making Dream Catchers
In our science program we have learnt about what things are made of and why we choose to use particular materials. We did some experiments to find which mateials were waterproof. Today we needed to make a dream catcher to hang outside. We could use any mateials that we wanted to. It was great fun! We took our dreamcatchers outside and showed the class where we would like to hang them. Lots of them had to be hung undercover as they were made of mateials such as paper, paper plates and egg cartons which were not water proof. The dream catchers made from plastic cups, wire and pipe cleaners could be hung outside as they were waterproof.
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