This week the Enviro avengers were introduced to a new weather station. It gives data on today’s weather in a sheet mailed to Mrs Hansen. Speaking of probes, they also experimented with a soil probe to determine the moisture of … Continue reading →

Enviro Avengers have been finding ways to reduce the amount of water we used for watering our school garden. The Auckland drought presented us with a rather difficult challenge. Conserving as much water as you can is mandatory now, and … Continue reading →

This week the weather station has finally been set up on the school roof. Thanks to the lovely workers from GutterCare for installing and Mr Jones for the pole. It is placed really high up, as our school is 3 … Continue reading →

This week we did pH testing. pH testing is a scientific way to find out if a liquid is acidic, alkaline or neutral. If a liquid is acidic then it can start dissolving things, for example our stomach acid, or … Continue reading →

Today we had a visit from Oscar and Micheal. They came to help us understand potential and kinetic energy.  This will help us work out how we will get the water to move once we collect it. Week 10 experiments … Continue reading →

This week we had Mrs Bebleman back to help us understand fair testing and learn about variables.  This will help us when we start looking at doing some testing of our own. After learning about variable and testing we did … Continue reading →

Week 2   We had a visit from our local scientist Cathy Bebelman We looked at Auckland Water situation We went out and looked at the drainage and types of pipes around our school