As promised at the recent Meet the Teacher session, I have created a blog for the class.
Obviously we have already been learning science whilst at school, so this blog will start giving more information about what we are doing as the terms progress.
This is an update on what we have done so far:
The topic that we are studying is Natural Events. This is a unit that explores our planet, and New Zealand's place on it, using a key idea- convection.
Scientists have subdivided the planet into spheres: the geosphere (the solid part of the planet), the atmosphere (the gas part), the hydrosphere (all of the liquid water) and the biosphere (the living things).
Chemicals move through each of these spheres and the form of the chemicals depends on the sphere they are in. E.g. chemicals in the hydrosphere tend to be soluble, in the air very small, light molecules and in the geosphere they tend to be insoluble (otherwise they would dissolve in the rain).
We have looked at the geosphere and atmosphere, learning the names of layers and along the way talking about particles and pressure.
Students have had three tests so far- one on the geosphere, one last week on the atmosphere and a Science Thinking With Evidence test.
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