Becoming familiar with Newton

Hi everyone
In the last few days we have done some study and experiments looking at Newtons Laws of Motion. This will help us as we head toward the Egg Drop Challenge and then next week onto the students own experiments for the summative assignment.
We have had some fun and on Friday the students performed some improptu drama's demonstrating the laws.
Here are a few for you to look at.
Mike

Eugene, Hong Suk and Dong Hee

SDC10700 from mike stanley on Vimeo.

Dana, Erin and Yerine

SDC10698 from mike stanley on Vimeo.

Tivan, Michael and Kane

SDC10696 from mike stanley on Vimeo.

Ashley, Gina and Brendan

SDC10694 from mike stanley on Vimeo.

Science at last

Hi everyone
The students are very excited that we have started our Inquiry unit about the Scientific Method. As part of this we are undertaking a lot of practical hand on experiments, practicing each step of the process to become really familiar with it.
This week has been about experimenting with water rockets. The students built some understanding around pressure and the properties of air and water.
The fun part of course was building and testing of the rockets. Some students wanted to find out if putting different amounts of water in the rocket would effect how high it would fly and others concentrated on whether more air pressure was better.
Mixed results were obtained and the students were given the opportunity to modify and try again.

Here are some of our photos;

Grade 5 television advertisements

We have finished our advertising unit of inquiry and as promised here they are for you to see.

The first one is produced by Ashley, Eugene and Gina

Our Ping Pong Advertisment from mike stanley on Vimeo.

Hong Suk, Dong Hee and Erica produced an advert about animal cruelty

HDE dog movie from mike stanley on Vimeo.

Billy, Hidemasa, Dana and Tatiana star in a funny movie about exercising your pets.

PN H,D,B,T from mike stanley on Vimeo.

Kane and Michael try to convince you to get better outside toys and equipment in the school yard.

MK toys movie from mike stanley on Vimeo.

Rikumu, Souta and Brendan want better tasting juice in the cafeteria.

BSR lemonade from mike stanley on Vimeo.