This week in STEAM, we had a super cool activity where we became history detectives! 🕵️‍♀️🕵️‍♂️

In small groups, we were given a famous New Zealander to learn about. Some of us had Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb Mount Everest! Others learned about Jean Batten, the amazing pilot who flew all the way across the world 🌍✈️. Some of us even explored the life of Ernest Rutherford, the scientist who helped discover atoms! ⚛️

In my group we had…..We worked together to find important dates in their lives – like when they were born, when they did something amazing, and when they changed the world. We put all our facts in order to make a giant timeline on a big sheet of paper. It was like building a story of their life!

We turned our paper timelines into awesome digital timelines on Canva. We added pictures, and fun colours to make them pop! 💻🎨

We learned:

• How to work as a team 🤝
• How to research important facts 🔍
• How to use digital tools like Canva 👩‍💻👨‍💻

It was fun learning about these brave and clever Kiwis. We think they would be proud of our timelines!

⭐”I didn’t know Jean Batten flew across the ocean by herself!”
 ⭐”We put Sir Ed climbing Everest in 1953 – that was our favourite part!”
 ⭐”Ernest Rutherford was super smart! I liked finding his science discoveries.”

We can’t wait to do more STEAM learning and share it with you next time!

What is your body made of? Your first thought might be that it is made up of different organs—such as your heart, lungs, and stomach—that work together to keep your body going. Or you might zoom in a level and say that your body is made up of many different types of cells. However, at the most basic level, your body—and, in fact, all of life, as well as the nonliving world—is made up of atoms, often organized into larger structures called molecules.

Whoa!

So you are an incredibly complex being made up of roughly:

7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms!!

(Seven octillion)

What is an atom? The definition of an atom is pretty simple – atoms are the building blocks of basically everything. If it can be weighed and takes up space, it is made of atoms. Atoms are so small they can’t be seen with a regular microscope. So how do we even know they exist? What does an atom look like?

What are the parts of an atom?

Atoms are made up of even smaller bits called subatomic particles. There are 3 subatomic particles: protons, neutrons, and electrons.

• Protons have a positive charge
• Neutrons don’t have a charge
• Electrons have a negative charge