Domino Fun

Today at school we watched some fantastic you tube clips of the Kinetic King doing some fantastic domino runs. We talked about all the forces we could see him using and also about all the different kinds of materials he used. Then we had a go at thinking about what we could use to make domino runs. We had some great ideas - have a look at our ideas here! It was so exciting. My challenge to the children is to see if they can make a domino run at home ... and maybe even have a competition with someone at home! We decided that we used push, pull and gravity in our domino runs.

The Kinetic King

Have a look at these fantastic clips from the Kinetic King. Can you think about the type of force that is involved in these amazing clips? We are going to have a go at doing something similar this week.

Toys and Forces

Today we brought along a toy that moves from home. We had so many cool things come along. We discussed how each toy moved and which forces were used. We discovered cogs and gears and how these work. We used the class gears set to explore this concept - it was pretty exciting! I was very proud of the way the children could describe what was happening to make their toys move. The children also wrote a great story about their toy and the forces it uses. We will publish this tomorrow.

Riley's Amazing Invention

We know Riley has a very clever inventing brain.

I was particularly excited tonight when I got an email from Riley's Dad sharing this great invention that Riley has drawn.  He has used lots of great forces concepts and explained his detailed drawing very well.

Thanks for being such a clever thinker Riley and for sharing your ideas with us.

Riley's great invention

The Theory of Water Displacement

Today we learned about another famous scientist called Archimedes.

We discovered that Archimedes is famous because he discovered a very important theory known as the Theory of Water Displacement.

We listened to a story about when Archimedes climbed into the bath and noticed the water level rose.  He called our Eureka when he realised he could use this to check if the kings crown was made of real gold.

We used Lily's drink bottle to explore this theory.  We filled it to the very top with water and then added cubes to the drink bottle.

We noticed that the water rose with each cube we added and eventually it overflowed.

Ask us to explain why this happened.  We are very clever at being able to answer this BIG question.

We learned what a hypothesis is too.

Finn took these photos for us.

Forces Experiment

Today we had some fun testing out how we could use push as a FORCE.

We tried to push against a buddy and balance ourselves.  It was quite tricky and lots and lots of fun!