Showing posts with label questioning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label questioning. Show all posts

Friday 21 October 2016

Perfect Pizzas...

Today we carried on with our raising agent pizza dough experiment. We made one pizza base with yeast in it and one with four eggs in it. This was the pizza base with yeast in it. The dough looked puffy and white.
This is a cup of yeast. It looked like little seeds in water! We had to wait five minutes for it to get puffy and frothy.

The pizza dough with eggs in it looked yellowish and bubbly. It had little green herbs in it (oregano).
When the egg pizza base was in the oven it looked like a bubbly volcano. It wasn't as yellow as before.

We got to taste test our pizza bases. Most people liked the pizza base with yeast in it. It was nice and soft. We discovered the pizza with yeast rose the highest. The one with no raising agent rose the least.
By Clem

Monday 10 October 2016

Problem Posing: How much money to we need to grow our garden?


Today in Maths, we were asked, “ How much money do we need to buy plants for our garden?” As part of our Inquiry about Change, we will be finding out about how plants grow.

Our focus was to ask good Mathematical and relevant questions.

We had to work as a team to come up with these questions. Here are some of the questions that we came up with:


1. Where is the garden? Thomas
2. How much space do we have in our garden? Lily S/ Pippa
3. What type of soil do we need? Rim
4. What season are we planting our seeds in? Charlotte
5. Where do we get plants from? Joni
6. Thinking about where we plant our garden, what do the plants need? What conditions do they need? Nela/ Ruby
7. How many plants do we need to buy? Lachlan
8. How big do the plants grow? Violeta
9. How long do the plants take to grow? Leola
10. When is a good time to plant the plants? Emelia
11. Do we need to grow them a little bit inside first? Talia
12. How many seeds are there in one packet? Rim

Message from Shona, Scott, Nicola and Susie:
This term we are continuing our Kitchen Science Inquiry and then moving on to an Inquiry around plants. We are keen to get the children growing various things, so the New World promotion is very timely. If possible, would you please be able to send one free Seedling Kit along to school for your child to grow. (They come free from New World if you spend $40). I have a friend who has obviously spent many amounts of $40 and she has given me her kits, so I have spares if anybody needs one. Alternatively, if you have any spares would you please send them along just in case.
We would also appreciate it if you have any spare empty plant containers that we can recycle and use for growing some other plants. 
And if anyone lives nearby, and has a garden that they are happy for the children to look at, it would be lovely for some groups to see a garden in action.

Friday 5 September 2014

Fizz Inflators

We had great fun on Thursday blowing up balloons using vinegar and baking soda.  The acid vinegar reacts with the alkaline baking soda to produce carbon dioxide bubbles.  Because gases require a lot more space than liquid so the carbon dioxide fills the bottle then moves into the balloon and inflates it.  You might like to try this at home and see how varying the amounts of baking soda and vinegar affects the amount the balloons inflate (a word of warning - we had a couple explode!)