Science



 **Science Fair Marking Term 2 2011** ☒ Not achieved ☑ Achieved ☑☑ Advanced

**Scientific Process and Background:** ☑☑ Clear aim/hypothesis carried through ☑☑ Method, accurate experimentation ☑☑ Accurate experimentation, controls, variables, repetitions ☑☑ Results clear, accurate, include appropriate data ☑☑ Conclusions are in line with aim/hypothesis ☑ Results are interpreted and discussed (conclusion)

**Technical Skill:** ☑ Design of the experiment ☑ Use of apparatus and materials

**Originality:** ☒ Imaginative/creative ideas ☒ New/Unusual application in science

**Presentation of Display:** ☑☑ Colour/form/clarity/graphics ☑☑ Innovative appeal

**Log Book:** ☒ Authentic ongoing record with raw data included ☒ Has supporting documentation, bibliography, acknowledgements

**Teacher Comment: Well done Madison, you started with an idea and turned this into a fair experiment where you discovered what protected an egg. I am glad that you have learnt the science fair process and I am sure that next year you will continue to do well. Great use of photos on your board and I am glad to see that you have talked about the science behind your experiments/results. I would be fantastic to see you choose something a little bit more challenging next year :) Well done**

**Student Comment:**

**Technology Marking Term 2 2011** ☒ Not achieved ☑ Achieved ☑☑ Advanced

**Technological Process:** ☒☑☑ Need or opportunity clearly identified/defined ☒☑☑ Research existing solutions ☒☑☑ Reworking/adaptations/testing successive prototypes/models ☒☑☑ Construction, quality finish, working parts, own skills ☒☑☑ Consistent, logical discussion and interpretation of results
 * Prototype**

**Final Product** ☒☑☑ Appropriate technological aspects of final product: ☒☑☑ Final product meets end-users needs ☒☑☑ Potential marketing and packaging strategies recorded/shown
 * efficiency
 * reliability
 * cost effectiveness
 * ease of use
 * suitable materials
 * safety
 * environmental soundness (all of the above are considered)

**Originality and Innovation** ☒☑☑ User needs met in original/innovative ways

**Presentation of Display** ☒☑☑ Colour/form/clarity/graphics ☒☑☑ Innovative appeal

**Teacher Comment:**

**Student Comment:**

            

__Thursday 5 May__

 Experiment 2 : Gravity free water

 What you need:


 *  Clear cup or glass
 *  Piece of cardboard

<span style="color: #2c2cfb; display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Method :


 * 1) <span style="color: #2c2cfb; display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; text-align: justify;"> Fill the glass up all the way to the top with water.
 * 2) <span style="color: #2c2cfb; display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; text-align: justify;"> Place the piece of cardboard on the mouth of the glass.
 * 3) <span style="color: #2c2cfb; display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; text-align: justify;"> Hold the cardboard as tight as you can for 10 - 60 seconds.
 * 4) <span style="color: #2c2cfb; display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; text-align: justify;"> Turn the glass upside down.
 * 5) <span style="color: #2c2cfb; display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; text-align: justify;"> Let the cardboard go.
 * 6) <span style="color: #2c2cfb; display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; text-align: justify;"> If you have done the experiment properly the following will happen...

<span style="color: #2c2cfb; display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #2c2cfb; display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"> What happened in our experiment : <span style="color: #2c2cfb; display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"> The first time Kennedy and I tried an air bubble was trapped so the experiment did not work. The second time we tried the cardboard and water stayed put. We were both pleased with our experiment. <span style="color: #2c2cfb; display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Traffic Light : <span style="color: #2c2cfb; display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"> I chose green because I enjoyed the experiment and I found it very amusing. <span style="color: #2c2cfb; display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #2c2cfb; display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #2c2cfb; display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Reflection : <span style="color: #2c2cfb; display: block; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Today I learnt that the force of gravity can be stopped if no air is trapped inside an object. I enjoyed doing the experiment because it was fascinating and amusing.

__<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Wednesday 4 May 2011 __

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; letter-spacing: 0px;">Aim : <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; letter-spacing: 0px;">Find which group of materials will protect an egg from falling 1 metre drop. Eggs that smash or crack fail the test while eggs that survive without a scratch pass! <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; letter-spacing: 0px;">Hypothesis : <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; letter-spacing: 0px;">I think that my construction using cardboard, tins and used fabric will work best because with the force of gravity it will push the egg down faster, and the fabric will make a soft cushioning for the egg. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; letter-spacing: 0px;">I think that my construction using plastic containers, straws and plastic bags wont work as well because eggs are very delicate and the plastic bags (or straws) will not make a spongy protection for the egg from when it was falling to landing.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">__Method__


 * 1) <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; letter-spacing: 0px;">Construct the system that will you think will protect the egg from smashing ( it has to STAND!!! )
 * 2) <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">Place the construction on a flat surface ( have paper towels or old towels to wipe up spills. Doing it in the garage is best ),though make sure there is no rain, wind ect.
 * 3) <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">Drop the first egg on one of the constructions. See what happens ( remember to record your results...ALWAYS!!! )
 * 4) <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">Drop the second egg on the second construction. See what happens and write all the details down.
 * 5) <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">Repeat step 3 & 4 at least 5 times and remember to write every result, detail or anything else down.
 * 6) <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">Look at all your results. Find your average and the will be your answer and which one is best!!!

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; letter-spacing: 0px;">Traffic Light: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; letter-spacing: 0px;">I chose green because I had fun guessing how my experiments could go and what would happen if they went wrong. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; letter-spacing: 0px;">

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; letter-spacing: 0px;">Reflection: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; letter-spacing: 0px;">Today I learnt what the word efficient means and how to write a acceptable hypothesis. I enjoyed finding new words to replace boring words in my aim and hypothesis.

Science Fair Due Friday 3 June Week 5 = = =<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"> = <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px;">Useful Science sites for ideas : <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px; padding-right: 10px;">@http://www.sciencebuddies.org/ <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27px; padding-right: 10px;">@http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px;">Cool Science Sites : <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px; padding-right: 10px;">@http://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/

====<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;">Please Note : ==== ====<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;">This table is different from the one outlined in the above Science Fair booklet. There will be __**no extensions**__ given, Class time will be given for writing up aim, hypothesis, instructions, explanations, diagrams, tables etc. and putting displays together. Parents please support your child with carrying out their experiments as this will be the main element of their homework during Science Fair. ====


 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">1 ||  || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Choose a topic including is it a //Science or Technology// display ||   || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Week 1 ||


 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">2 ||  || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Completed Aim and Hypothesis (science) or Question (technology) ||   || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Week 2 ||

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Webdings; letter-spacing: 0px;"> //What do you need?// <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;"> <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Webdings; letter-spacing: 0px;"> //Who do you use?How many?// <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;"> <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Webdings; letter-spacing: 0px;"> //What help do you require?// <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;"> <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Webdings; letter-spacing: 0px;"> //How will you measure and collect data?// <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;"> <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Webdings; letter-spacing: 0px;"> //How many trials/experiments/prototypes will// //you complete?// <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;"> <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Webdings; letter-spacing: 0px;"> //How will you present data? Numbers are good!// <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;"> <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Webdings; letter-spacing: 0px;"> //Do you need to complete a Animal Ethics form?// ||   || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Week 2 ||
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">3 ||  || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Planned how you are going to complete experiments (science) or investigation of needs assessment and prototype design (technology)


 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">4 ||  || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Start experiments (science) or needs assessment (technology) ||   || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Week 3 ||


 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">5 ||  || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Needs assessment (technology) completed ||   || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Week 3/4 ||


 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">6 ||  || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Experiments (science) and prototype testing (technology) completed ||   || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Week 3/4 ||


 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">7 ||  || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">First draft completed ||   || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Week 4/5 ||


 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">8 ||  || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">All written work, diagrams, tables, graphs, photos, and other graphics completed and checked by the class teacher **BEFORE** it is attached to the display ||   || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Week 5 ||


 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">9 ||  || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">**Completed display ready to be marked by teacher** ||   || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Monday Week 6 ||

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; letter-spacing: 0px;"> Experiment 1 : Mixing Colours
==<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; letter-spacing: 0px;"> Why it happens : Our eyes cannot focus fast enough to see the different colors separately so they mix together and appear to be white. The other colors of the rainbow can be made by mixing a combination of the three primary colors together (red, blue and green). Make lots of spinning tops using different combinations of colors. When the spinner moves fast you see light reflected from all its colors, but your brain cannot separate them so you see a mixture of all the colors; which is white. == ==<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; letter-spacing: 0px;"> What happens : Me and Kennedy's discs were made out of Kennedy’s refill back and a piece of refill, we spun the discs with a pencil through the middle. They spun really well and the colour we saw was white because our colours on our discs were just about pure. ==

==<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Today I learnt what happens when blue, red and green are all jumbled together. I enjoyed working in pairs because it was helpful knowing someone was there to help you. ==