Science Gallery Field Trip

Today our class went on a field trip to the Manitoba Museum. We had a great time learning about science and having fun playing the amazing little science games. First we went into a room behind the curtain, we learned about chemical and physical changes! The guy that was helping us was named Sean. He showed us some neat experiments… One of them involved a diaper! Also one of them involved a rocket, sort of…  After that we got to explore the science gallery! Two of the things me and Brooke liked were… I liked the Mirror maze/room. Brooke liked the movie maker. There are two other things I liked were the pulley chairs and the space simulator etc. It was super fun!

By: Brooke and Mikayla  

Science Design Projects

Our forces and motion design projects are AWESOME! Some of them are big and some are small. This design needed to set a marble in motion with no hands, have potential and kinetic energy, have linear, oscillating, rotational or reciprocating motion and come to a complete stop every time. It also needed change speed and direction. The projects needed to be built with recycled materials at school. For example, you could use toilet paper rolls and cardboard. There were so many steps to make them. Everybody was working hard to complete their projects. These projects took about a week to be done. Our class got to go to the other grade 5 class to see their projects and their class came to ours to see our projects. Their projects were so cool. Now that we are done testing, someone will have to take the project home. The best part of the project was building it and designing it, because I like to build stuff and design. Some people had to make a lot of changes, and that’s what good designers do. We also had to say what our design could be used for in real life. 

By Brooke & Jerrett

IBL Weather Projects

In November we started choosing and researching our IBL projects. We used both books and the internet to research our topic. We had to choose an extreme weather condition. You could choose… floods, hurricanes, thunderstorms, tsunamis, droughts, tornadoes, lightning and others.

Ryan chose to do tsunamis and Brody chose to do hurricanes. You could also choose how you wanted to present it. The options we could use were Smore, Prezi, Powerpoint, Comic Life, or Symwriter. Lots of people chose to do Prezi. For our research booklets we had to find information for an Introduction, Devastation, Safety Plan, Sustainability, Fascinating Facts and Wonders.

 
We presented our projects in the computer lab in the beginning of January. It was neat because we set up our project and then left it for others to come and look at. Then we got to go around and look at everyone else’s projects. We had to leave a compliment about their project before we left to watch another one. We also had to take jot notes about each project we viewed.

Brody researched Hurricanes and he did a Prezi. Ryan studied Tsunamis for the IBL project and presented it on Comic Life.  

This was a fun project and we learned a lot! Thanks Mrs. Dent Scarcello for all you help.

By: Ryan & Brody