Light Fantastic with Rooms 12and 12b ...WOW !!!

Room 2 .... What an enthusiastic bunch of young scientists. Nothing static about their learning today! Well done everyone.

Dust extractors, Spray Painters, Photocopiers and Separators all use STATIC ENERGY

You are a great class, Room 9 ...Great thinking and Questioning In ScI tech

Oscar Moriarty ... Best in the Hawkes Bay Science and Technology Fair for 2014 ... CONGRATULATIONS OSCAR

We Love Mythbusters .... PleAse Mum and Dad .... Hahaha!

Join MythBusters Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage live on stage for two hours of on-stage experiments, rocking video and more. Vector Arena 2pm and 7.30pm Saturday, September 6. Tickets from $59 adults, $39 child. ticketmaster.co.nz

Celebrating a Job well done. Thanks team for sharing fun science with our incoming year 6s on OPEN EVENING.

CONGRATULATIONS to ALL our SCIENCE FAIR Students ... A BIG 'WOW' to the 7 prize winners ... Sam, Jasmine, Siena, Ethan, Oscar, Hannah and Will ... E X C I T I N G

 

COME view our winning projects 30 July, 3 to 6 p.m. CONGRATULATIONS to all our science fair participants. Great investigating.

The Science Fair is coming up ... Whoo Hoo !!! ... You are invited to see the best of HNI's 2014 projects on the 30th July, 3-6 p.m.

The invisible Spectrum: testing how effective our sun safety practices are and making UV detector bracelets. FUN ...!

Sparks fly in ScI Tech Today !!!

Forces at Work with Room 17

Personal Science Challenge ... Very entertaining Anna ... Well done.

Sophie shows her class how to tell whether a liquid is an acid or a base,using a cabbage juice indicator.

Making LEDs glow and MOTORS go ! Electrical ENERGY !

Well done, budding scientists !

Learning about the Mysteries of Light

Sustainability discussion ... What else can you do ????

Group F explaining our beautiful world.

Singing and Dancing in Science class .... " Glow, Glow, Glow Roy-G-Biv ..... ". !!!! Whatever next?

Studying the visible spectrum

Science Technology is FUN for Everyone

Watch out for UV !

Photocopiers, air filters, paint sprayers and printers ... So many uses for static electricity!

Playdough, batteries,wires and LEDs equals Closed circuit FUN

Room 4 and 'The coke and mentos' experiment to show a physical process called Nucleation.

Passion for Magnets !

Magnets in our lives ... They are everywhere !!!

The Lunar Eclipse ... 15th April ... Called the "blood moon" due to its colour, which is caused by the sun refracting through the Earth's atmosphere and hitting the surface of the moon. It is the earth 's shadow through which the moon passes. What an amazing sight!

Room 13 & 16 Testing their vehicles.

Joshua and his Spinning Eggs !!

Cycle 2 Science Tech started today ... Checking out gravity and friction with room 1

Aimee's Water Magic

Matthew's Oxygen Experiment

How static is static electricity ?

Charlotte's D A N C I N G Raisins !!!

Josh and the Black Balloon ... 'Tis carbon dioxide again, kids!

A Quick 'March' Past through Science Technology

Making carbon dioxide from an acid / base reaction ... Go Amy !

Personal Challenges shared

Elephant's Toothpaste by Jacinta

Happy Visitors ... Lovely to see you Haumoana

Centripetal Force, and, Air Pressure

Personal Science Challenges from Room 15

Mirrors, Lenses, Action with Room 17

What a Beautiful World !

"The Floating Egg" by Bronson

Egg Versus the Bottle ... Exploring forces.

Curious about something? Got a question? Do a Personal Science Challenge:-)

Room 12a in action

Brilliant learning room 4. You are MAGNETS for science.

You are onto it !

Bend water, stick it to the ceiling, your head or ? Make your hair stand on end! It's all in the electrons :-)

Attract or Repel ... They are so strong !

The Earth is a great big Magnet !

Learning about friction, gravity and energy -transfer through collisions

Keeping Safe in the SUN

Light Fantastic

Total Concentration

Room 4 learning about POTENTIAL (stored) and KINETIC (moving) ENERGY and what happens when masses of varying sizes collide. 

Lots of scientific language, observing, accurate measuring and recording required to acquire data for analysis.  ....    And then we were allowed to try out our own variations !   This led to even more exciting learning.

 

Plenty of budding scientists in room 4 ... great thinking everyone.  

Having Fun With Your Peepers !

Some Room 15 students exploring lenses as part of a LIGHT ENERGY focus: 

Convex and concave lenses, microscoping lenses, focal length, 

their use as a vision aid plus many other common uses in our everyday lives.  

Oh, the excitement of seeing things larger than life !!!

Newton's Cradle Is Popular

Nicole is fascinated, as is everyone, by the many ways you can explore 'FORCE and ENERGY' by using Newton's Cradle.  

We found out that gravitational potential (stored) energy turns to kinetic (moving) energy when the balls are released and swing. 

 Energy is transferred through collision of the metal balls and the momentum (conservation of energy) keeps the potential  /  kinetic relationship going for quite a while.  
Eventually the system comes to a stop due to heat and friction which means energy is lost from the cradle itself.

Explanation of Newton’s Cradle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA2vjXHnySU

Newton’s Cradle Tricks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_LFyPO5KTg