The Drawing Machine

Today we made a drawing machine.  We created it out of the Little Bits robotic parts.  We read the instructions carefully and built it but we needed to make some adjustments.  First we tested it with a whiteboard pen but the pen didn't work so we got another one and it worked perfectly.

By Alyssia and Violet the creators

Space Exploration

Mrs Clapham took us to explore the solar system.  We paced out the planets and found out just how far they all are from each other and the sun.

Seed Sitters

Hwan stayed on the job all weekend and just look how the seeds progressed under his care!

Thank you Hwan!

Seed Sitters

What a difference a weekend makes.  Look how Nathan's seeds have changed over the weekend.  Another awesome job by one of our expert seed sitters.  Thanks Nathan!

Seed Sitters

More observations... when given water and a bit more time, just look at the progress these seeds are making under the watchful eye of seed sitter Maddison!

Seed Sitters

Another one of our professional 'Seed Sitters' has been doing an amazing job over the weekend.  Check out what Maddison has noticed so far.

Thanks Maddison!

Seed Sitters

An empty classroom over the weekend is no place for seeds to thrive.  Call in our professional 'Seed Sitters' to take care of them.  Here is what Pranvi has noticed so far.

Thank you Pranvi!

Observations

Look How You've Grown!

From the tiny little seeds they started as, to healthy cress plants.  Learners in Room 20 have been watching their plants closely and have made sure they got what they needed to grow.  

Just look at them now!

The World of Plants

Videos to help you dive into our learning about plants.  Check out the class site for more.

Growing Log

Room 20 are growing seeds.  We all have a little plant that we are taking care of, making sure it gets what it needs to be healthy.  Here's what has happened so far.

Our Observations

Today was the day!  We began to see what happens during the water cycle in our very own classroom.  Some of the water in our bags has started to evaporate and is turning into vapour.  It is now showing up as tiny droplets on the sides of our bags, a bit like clouds.  What will happen next?

How do you make a water cycle in a bag?

As part of our learning journey into water, Room 20 have created a water cycle in a bag.  You might be wondering how is that possible, so are we!  We are not seeing much action yet and think our experiments might be missing one important thing.  Can you think what it might be? 

Life as a Drop of Water

On Friday Room 20 learnt what it is like to be a drop of water.  Sally from Watercare came to teach us about how water gets to our homes.  We found out that water is very old and is always moving.  

At the end of our lesson we were able to try and clean some dirty water.  We trialled different filters: sand, bark, paper towel and cotton wool.  You can see that our results were all different.

Did Our Water Really Walk?

We wondered what we might find when we arrived back at school.  Our experiments had changed but each was different.  Can you see any changes?

We noticed...

Maskil - Before the handy towel was white but it changed from the food colouring.

Jamie - The food colouring kept on climbing up until it reached the next cup.

James - The plain water changed because of the paper towel.

Mia - The blue food colouring was so strong that it went into the plain cup of water and turned that blue too.

Sophia - Sometimes two colours would creep up the handy towel and make new colours.

Liam - When the yellow food colouring went to the red it made orange.

Walking Water

Is water really able to walk?  We are going to find out!