As part of our HSIE study of State and National Parks. We will be travelling to Kalkari Discovery Centre within Ku-ring-gai National Park. We will be guided on a walk through the National Park by the Kalkari guides and participate in a variety of experiments and activities.
Venue: Kalkari Discovery Centre – Bobbin Head
Cost: $15.00
Transport: bus
Dress: [...]
Ku-ring-gai
Categorized in Excursions, HSIE
Bending Light (Refraction): Soap Bubbles
Light travels in straight lines from its source. While it looks white to our eyes, light is made up of a whole spectrum of colours. Our eyes can see only a small portion of the entire spectrum. We see light as Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and violet (Roy G. Biv).
When light rays move from [...]
“Scarecrows on the Beaches” competition
As we are part of the Peninsula Community of Schools (PCS) we are going to participate in the ’Scarecrow on the Beaches’ competition.
The theme is to do with ‘Harmony – Together we can make it happen’ and as it is the Year of Sustainability we need to try use recycled material.
I had the idea of creating [...]
Categorized in Creative Arts, Fun Stuff
Tags: Beaches, Scarecrows
World Maths Day – 3rd March
World Maths Day is on NOW! Can we unite to break the world record?
CONGRATULATION EVERYONE ON YOUR WONDERFUL EFFORT
YOU ANSWERED ALMOST 30 000 QUESTIONS CORRECTLY
This year features an exciting new format with multi-levels for all age groups. Can we beat last year’s world record of almost 2 million students from 204 countries correctly answering [...]
Who Stole the Anzac Cookie from the Cookie Jar?
This is a very difficult puzzle: There are five people – Holly, Cameron, Julieanne, Alex and Jackie. Each one stole a special cookie of their favourite brand which was kept in a jar. Each person ate it in a particular place and drank their flavoured milk with it.
Jackie is next to the person who eats [...]
Tags: Maths, Problem Solving
Creating an Imitation Rainbow Spectrum
Today in class we created an Imitation Rainbow Spectrum using just the primary colours RED, YELLOW and BLUE. We could have done this using paint but it is very limited, unless you spend a lot of time with the creation. A far more impressive spectrum can be created following the procedure below.
Goal: Creating an Imitation [...]
Preserving (Saving) our National Parks
Minnamurra Rainforest in Budderoo National Park on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia. It was a tiny rainforest remnant that was gradually but surely being loved to death by the thousands of visitors who came year after year to admire and marvel at its many wanders and bath in the icy waters of [...]
Categorized in HSIE
Tags: HSIE, National Parks
Light and our Eyes: Anaglyph 3-D Glasses
Most human beings come equipped with two eyes and an absolutely amazing binocular vision system. For objects up to about 6 to 7 meter away, the binocular vision system lets us easily tell with good accuracy how far away an object is. For example, if there are multiple objects in our field of view, we can automatically [...]
What causes a rainbow?
One of the most important experiments on light was made by Isaac Newton. He was the greatest of all English men of science. He discovered that sunshine (white light) is made up of many colours. Over 300 years ago, Sir Isaac Newton passed a beam of white light through a prism. A prism is a [...]
Categorized in Class Work, Science
Writing 4 Fun Competition
Writing4Fun is a unique competition that showcases some of the finest young writing talent in the world today.
Entry is NOW OPEN in the 2010 Schools Writing Competition! Students all over Australia are invited to enter their short stories OR poems, and battle it out for the great cash prizes on offer.
This year – there is [...]
Tags: writing, Writing4fun
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