Science Trip

Last week Friday we went on a trip to two places, but did three things. We went to Pt England Reserve and to the Glen Innes swimming pool. It was an exciting trip, although I did not participate due to me being sick. I did enjoy watching everyone else participating and communicating with each other. For our first session we did a survey on the sea shore. We found a lot of shells instead of interesting things, like tiny fishes or shrimps or even crabs. For our second session we did snorkelling and learnt new tricks. The class had fun participating and swimming with the instructor and their partners. For our third and last session we picked up rubbish. The purpose of this was to examine carefully on what people throw away here at Pt England Reserve and to help the environment. After that we walked back to our various destinations. I learnt that the basic rules of wearing snorkelling gear and I learnt and witnessed the amount of rubbish that can be found, but still can be a lot of rubbish. I can apply these skills into my daily life by helping the environment by picking up rubbish and teaching other people how to snorkel. I enjoyed the trip and hope to go again.

Sharing my learning in year 10 science

For the past few weeks we have been learning a lot in science. Like the nutrients and their functions and even reflected about our environment that is wrapped around us everyday. For my environment I did:
1. People/Family/Friends
2. Physical Spaces
3. Church (Mormon)
4. Sports
5. School
6. Art (Sketch)
These were the things that I am surrounded by everyday and that had an effect on me, they are also my values. These six important things that I value are apart of my environment.

1. People/Family/Friends
I see my family everyday, I am surrounded by them out and inside of school.

2. Physical Spaces
I go to the park on Saturday's wit my family. It's my way of distracting myself from the WiFi and spending more time with my family.

3. Church (Mormon)
I go to church on Sunday's, it has an effect on me because as a Mormon their are certain things that we can and can't do, but it is completely our choice. It's like a test everyday.

4. Sports
I play sports at school (P.E & Brake Times). It's my way of keeping active and distracting myself from the games online and being lazy.

5. School
My learning takes part at school in the classrooms from Monday to Friday. It has an effect on me because I go to school to learn and expand my knowledge.

6. Art (Sketch)
Art is important to me because it's an amazing gift to me and it's my way of keeping the family tradition alive.

The class and I also learnt about the six nutrients. Our teacher (Ms Wells) set a slide with questions and gave us the decision to pick one out of the six nutrients. We were put into groups of two or three, There was only two of us in my group (Whitney & I). She gave us about 30 minutes to complete the slides with the questions so that we could present it in front of the class. My group took the topic of unsaturated fats and oils. We completed the slides, but some of our data was incorrect. We found that doing this in groups was easier than doing the work separately. My partner and I enjoyed it and found it interesting because we found out things we never knew before. I hope to do this again and next I would like to learn more about the six nutrients.

Science

The term is nearly over and for the past few weeks my class and I learnt about the science lab safety rules, layers of the earth, tectonic plates, earthquakes and volcanoes. I enjoyed learning all of these things and they could defiantly could be helpful in the future.

Chemical change

Walt: write a paragraph on chemical changes.

For the past few days we have been learning about chemical change.  I know that chemical change is when you combine two or more things together and it can never be reversed back. For today's lesson we made pancakes in the hall to prove that there is science in cooking.

We knew that there was a chemical change when we combined the ingredients together because the substance changed and when we added heat to it the there was a bubbles and that meant the release of gas. We also knew that there was chemical change because the colour changed.

Hot air balloon

As we kept on walking we came across a hot air balloon project. It was about how the air inside is hot and as it cools down the balloon stops floating in the air.

Feet size check

Our next option was when we had to check what size our feet was. The smallest was 12 and the biggest was 23. My teacher and friend tried it and they had a small size. My teachers size was 5 and my friend size was 4.

What colour is the box?

After the roadshow we got a chance to go and play with some of the science toys. As my group and I walked and stopped to play with the science toys we came across a box. I said to look through the hole and guess the colour. Everyone said black. When we opened the box the colour was yellow. On a board it showed why the colour was black and it was because there was no light to show the colour.

Physical and chemical changes

Today for our school trip we went to Baradene College. There was a science road show that to wonderful people preformed. For our first show we learnt about physical and chemical changes. We learnt that physical change is when you do something to an object but you don’t use any product. Chemical change is when you do something to an object and it can never be reversed.