30 Aug 2018
On Monday morning 27th August, 12 budding scientists from Year 4 attended a Science workshop at Sir Joseph Banks High School.
It was a fabulous morning full of new knowledge, experiments and working with Year 7 students, including Jonathan Turner from our Year 6 2017.
First, we watched a funny safety video about working in Science laboratories, and then we did an experiment to simulate the spread of disease.
We were all given a beaker of a solution that we shared with some of our friends by using an eyedropper. One of our team supposedly had the 'disease carrier' in it so when that person shared his liquid we found out that 5 other students were 'infected'. The liquid turned bright pink to show evidence of the 'disease'.
Next we were given the task to get some 'clean salt for our chips' after someone had poured the salt into some sand. We added water to the salt /sand mixture and stirred it until the salt dissolved. Then we poured the solution through filter paper and used a Bunsen burner and tripod to boil the remaining solution until the water evaporated, leaving pure salt.
We all had a great time and thanked the staff and students at Sir Joseph Banks High School for hosting the morning.
Mrs Kaim
