Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Myth Busting Day - Rotation 1 of 3

Today, we had a day where we busted myths! We had a lot of fun experimenting to learn about the scientific method and changes between solids, liquids, and gases.

We completed a 3-way rotation. In these photos, we are exploring sublimation (changing from a solid to a gas). We used dry ice to show this change in state through a number of experiments.

SAFETY

Did you know that dry ice is a solid and has a temperature of -78.5 degrees celsius? That is 78.5 degrees colder than frozen water (ice)!
















It is so cold that whoever handles the dry ice has to wear gloves to protect their hands from the cold!

DETERGENT BUBBLE



Here we showed a build up of gas as the dry ice went through sublimation by created a detergent bubble over the bucket.

DRY ICE AND WARM WATER



Here, we added dry ice to water to show the release of a gas during sublimation.

BLOWING UP A BALLOON





In these photos, we compared a balloon which had been blown up by using our breath (left), and a balloon which had been blown up by the gas created using dry ice (right). The balloon on the right was much heavier so it hit the ground first when dropped. You can also see that the balloon on the left is see-through where as the one on the right is not.

EXPLORING THE RESULT OF DRY ICE, WARM WATER, AND DETERGENT
 


We then explored the result of mixing detergent, warm water and dry ice. It created a foam made up of lots of bubbles which turned into a gas when popped!

STUDENT LEARNING

We finished by creating a blog post showing our learning. Check out Sheales' learning here!


26 comments:

  1. Hello Room 7 My name is Jorja and I am from Kaniere School Ruma Rua. We Live near Lake Kaniere and that is how we have our school name.
    I like the way you put the dry ice into the warm water. It looks like a lot of fun. We had a science road show and it was great. We couldn't touch anything.
    How cold was the bucket ?
    Great Job .


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    1. Hi Jorja my name is Tatiana i am from Ptengland school we live near Ptengland beach that how we got our school name.The bucket was about -78.5 degrees celsius and the bucket was colder than frozen water.

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    2. Hi Jorja my name is Sabrina I am from Ptengland school we live near Ptengland beach that how we got our school name.The bucket was about -78.5 degrees celsius and the bucket was colder than frozen water.

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    4. Hi Room 7 I am Kayla from Kaniere school.I like the way you did this experiment. It looked like you had a very good time.I like how you picked to do this activity.How cold was the bucket???If you can can you please have a look at my blog that would be great. Kaylad@kaniere.school.nz

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  2. Hello Room 7 my name is Abby and I am from Kaniere School Ruma Rua. You can see Mount Cook from our town. I love all the photos you have put in. It looks like you had a great day.
    How long did it take for the gas to blow up the baloon?
    Great job

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    1. Hi Abby,

      My name is Sheales. That is a really great fact to know that use can see Mount Cook from you town. I think around 1 minuet and 30 seconds, but i'm not quit sure.

      From Sheales

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  3. Hi my name is Alicia I am from Kaniere School. Our school is really close to Lake Kaniere.
    I really like it when you put the dry ice in to the hot water. It looked really cool. It also looked really cool when you put the balloon on the bottle full of dry ice and hot water. Was it fun because it looked like a lot of fun?
    when you pot your hand in it the buckit full of ice and hot water.

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  4. Hi Rm 7 my name is Ursina.
    I am from Kaniere School.
    I Like the way you put pictures of the ice absorbing into dry ice.
    Last year I did this in my class.
    What did it make you feel like.

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  5. Hello my name is Jessie and I am from Kaniere School. You have done an amazing project about cold ice. I wish we got to do that in class. The science road show came to our school and they did it all for us. I was wondering if anyone touched it without gloves. Awesome work!

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    1. Hello Jessie, my name is Noah and I come from Pt England School. No student touched the dry ice only Teachers, No one was harmed in making of this project.
      From Noah

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  6. Hi Room 7,
    It’s Danna in Room 4 at Wesley Primary School. I liked the way that you guys made a presentation at the end so we can understand what you did and try and to do it ourselves. I think you should try more experiments from the internet so you could do more amazing things like this. So yeah, nice work Room 7. If you want to see my blog here it is http://wpsdannaa.blogspot.co.nz/ this is were I show my learning in the internet.

    Blog You Later!

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    1. Hey Danna,
      Its Mitchell from Room 7 at Pt England School. I like your opinion on why we should do more experiments. I have viewed your blog and have seen you recent blog posts. Check out my comment.

      Kind regards, Mitchell

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  7. Morena Room 7,
    My name is Tania and I am one of the Manaiakalani Outreach Facilitators. I live in Whangarei and work with lots of teachers and students who like you, are using blogs to share their learning. I am so pleased that you have joined our Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu programme this term and will be working really hard on leaving quality blog comments on other class blogs. I hope you enjoy seeing what is happening in other classes and get ideas from them too. I can see already on this blogpost that heaps of students from Kaniere School have commented on your science experiments and have been inspired by your learning! Keep up the great sharing. I will make sure I check out your class blog on a regular basis and hope to look at some of your individual blogs and leave comments too. Let me know if there is anything I can help you with.
    Nga mihi nui
    Tania

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  8. hi there, my name is Lleyton and I am a student at Wesley primary school. I really love the pictures that you posted. It made me think of student tool kits. Have you thought about taking a class photo with all of you with your teachers? if you would like to see my learning my blog is http://wpslleytonh.blogspot.co.nz/

    blog you later...

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  9. Hi there, my name is Losaline and I am a student in room 4 at Wesley Primary school. I really like your videos it made me think of learning more about your photos. It made me think of the time I learned about soled and gas. . If you would like to see my learning, my blog is http://Wpslosalinek.blogspot.co.nz blogspot.co.nz.

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  10. Hi there, my name is Fareni and I am a student in room four at Wesley Primary School. I really like your experiment using dry ice It made me think of when we did a experiment with boiling water and baking soda. Have you thought about making more experiments with dry ice. If you would like to see my learning, my blog is http://wpsfarenif.blogspot.co.nz

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  11. Hi there my name is Maddison and I am a student at Kaniere School. I really like the experiment that you choose to do. It looked amazing!! I don't like cold ice but I love science!!!!What was your favorite part of it??

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  13. Hi, I like how you showed us your dry ice science project I would like to know what stuff you need to make the dry ice thing because it looks like smoke, that it is why it looks cool! We watched a video on Youtube and it said you could do it different cinds of ways i hope you leave me a comment to blog you later. Nikora Wesley primary school.

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  14. Hi there, my name is Sela and I am a year 5 student in room 4 at wesley primary School. I really like it when you guys made the dry ice. It made me think of time i watched a video of how to make dry ice. Have you thought about put more information about the dry ice. If you would like to see my learning, my blog is http://wpsselah.blogspot.co.nz
    Blog you later.

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  15. Hi there, my name is Milika and I am a year 5 student in room 4 at Wesley Primary School. I really like the picture when you guys do the dry ice and the girl was blowing the big balloon and she hold it up with the teacher too and it is red. It made me think of a time that me and my only one aunty was trying to go so we can see and touch ice but my aunty can not drive . Have you thought about a time that you where going to see the ice . If you would like to see my learning, my blog is http://wpsv.blogspot.co.nz/
    Blog you later

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  17. Hi my name is Corbin I'm from Kaniere School Hokitika
    I like all of those photos. Did you use liquid nitrogen or just dry ice. They are both dangerous.
    If there is more plz tell me
    BY!!!!!!!!!

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  18. Hi there, my name is Evynesence I am a yr 6 and I am a student in room 4 at Wesley Primary School. I really enjoy looking at your photos. My favourite photo was when the whole class was doing dry ice. It was cool when I saw the dry going up like a dried ice bubble. But I really wanted to see how did you make the dry ice. The dried ice photo reminded me of a video I watched about dry ice. The dry ice looked very eye catching and I hope to see more. If you would like to see my learning, my blog is http://wpsevynesenceg.blogspot.co.nz/

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