Stu and Charlotte's Hand Challenge

This is our poster about the hand. We made this poster for a challenge that Mrs Weir, our teacher, gave us. We had to explain what the human hand does and why it is so important and useful. We had to use QR codes that we scanned with the tablets to find useful websites with information.

Ben and Shannon's Hand Challenge

During writing and science we did a challenge that was called "give me a hand". We had to make a poster that explained what are hands and how do they work. Our question was "why are our hands some of the most important tools we have?". We used QR codes to help us find our answers. We learnt that we need thumbs to help us do things like picking up things, if we have no thumbs it is hard to do stuff. 

Jade and Jor'jah's writing & science challenge

 

 

This is our science challenge. We wrote our explanation to answer the question, the question was "why are our hands some of the most imports tools we have?" We spent lots of time thinking about this. We used QR codes to get onto websites and videos. We planned out our poster before we glued most stuff on and we drew some pictures of  a bone and a skull. We worked really hard on this and we hope you like our poster that we worked hard on to get it as perfect as we could in the time we had. This science & writing was a real challenge!

Libby and Jakobs Why are our hands so important poster

Today we had to write and design a poster that showed why the human hand was so important to us. We learnt how to work well together as well as how many bones are in each finger and all the different things that we can do with our hands. It made us realize how amazing and useful our hands are in every day life. We used QR codes as a treasure hunt to find useful links for information and diagrams. We really enjoyed this project.

Happy Easter from Room 1!

 

Acids and Carbonates

Today in science we learned about acids and carbonates. We worked in pairs to combine different substances and recorded our observations on a table in a shared document on Google Drive.
Here are the substances we had: washing powder, chalk, lemon juice, eggshells, orange juice, tea, sugar, vinegar, baking powder.

We experimented and observed, recorded and checked. Then we were able to decide what happened when we mix an acid and a carbonate - they make gas! We knew this because all the acid and carbonate mixtures bubbled or fizzed (although the eggshells didn't work well - we think they needed to be ground up more than we could manage) showing the gas that was created.
Here is Jakob's diagram of which substances were acids and which were carbonates:

Can you spot the two tricky ones that were neither an acid or a carbonate?!

Ben and Charlotte's Hen house

Ben and Charlotte have been making a hen house today.  They built these sides from pieces of wood.  They are going to get more wood to build another side and a roof.  They want to hinge a side so it opens easily for the hens to go in and out of.

We look forward to seeing it complete.

 

We used thin pine wood, little red nails, and silver nails, a hammer and a saw.  When we were making the sides Charlotte cut her finger with one of the red nails.