Tag: Science

Sundial – Step it Up

I made my own sundial by using a paper plate, blue tack and a lolly stick from the ice block I had just eaten.   I had to wait till the next day to place it in the sun as it was not sunny the day I made it.  I placed it in the sun at 9am and marked it every hour until 3pm.  It was not easy as it turned out to be a cloudy day.  This is my completed sun dial with the marks on every hour.  I am going to make one out of metal with my Dad that I can leave outside in the garden as I think they are really cool.

The Human Sundial – Kick Start

For today’s task I had to make a human Sundial.   you make a human Sundial by standing in the same position each time and having someone else draw around you.

My two Interesting facts are linked to my sundial….

Interesting fact 1:  in the middle of the day when I did my sundial the sun was in the centre of the sky this means that the shadows that are formed from the sun are very small but really dark in colour.  From 2 pm the shadow will begin to grow long and less dark this explain the large gap in my human sun dial from 2-3 pm as I went thinner.

Interesting fact 2: I never knew this until after I did my son dial  but the  human Sundial works by having your arm up in the air as this represents the time on my sundial you could use the top of my head to work out the time.

Here is my sundial I was only able to do it from 1 pm till 3 pm as it got to cloudy and the sun vanished.

Paper Planes & Flight Forces – Step it Up

Paper Planes & Flight Forces – Step it up task was to build different paper airplanes and compare how they fly.

Here are the planes I built and what I noticed about how each one fly’s.  It is done a bit like a science experiment as I love science experiments.  My brother is throwing the planes for me as he loves planes and wanted to be part of the project, he also sat watching me make the planes and telling me if I did something wrong.

Build A Plane – Step It Up

For todays Build A Plane – Step It Up I had to create a powered plane.  I was not able to create a plane so I decided to share my Balloon Copter with you and tell you how it works…

The balloon copter works by releasing the air from the balloon = thrust, and the released a causes the blades to spin = lift.  The amount of air in the balloon = thrust.

The copter can go up to 20 feet if outside.

Here is a video of my balloon copter flying, because it was raining outside I had to fly it in the living room so I did not put a lot of air in the balloon as it was not able to go really high inside.

Shadow Art – Step it up

This was a really cool task I did have to do it twice as my cat decided that the pine cone I was using for my first one looked fun to play with so he moved it off the paper and deck – he then decided to sleep on my paper, when i went out later to get the paper it had vanished.

The second time around I decided to use a leave stuck to the table with play-doh this is how it turned out.

This is my shadow time laps art of a leave.  I did it over the space on an hour in 15min time slots.  I was going to do it over a longer time but the leave started to currle up.  You can see from the last shadow that the leave has started to change shape slightly at the top.  I did my art mid morning so the shadow from the sun made my leave shadow move to the side and stay the same shape.

 

Build A Plane – Kick Start

Today’s kick start was to create a glider from recycled materials.  My younger brother wanted to help me.  This is what we created.  It flew at least 4/5 meters, as in video on slide 2.  It s my brother throwing the glider in the video and not me as he was not able to film me throwing it so we swapped places.

The materials/equipment  we used to make it are:

  • Double sided tape
  • Drink bottle
  • Cardboard 
  • Craft knife
  • Scissors 
  • Marker pen

Shadow Art – Kick Start

Today’s Summer Learning Journey Task was to draw the shadow of something in nature.  I ran around the garden to fond an area that had a shadow and drew this plant shadow.  I then coloured it in using water colours for the back ground and markers for the plant to make it stand out.  I hope you like it.  I did not really like how the plant changed when I was drawing the shadow as it no longer looked like a plant but after I added colour back in it looked a lot batter.

 

Under The Sea Robot – step It Up

Is my under the sea robot Summer Learning journey task.  I hope to see something like it in the future that can help save the coral in the ocean as the coral provides homes, protection and food for sea life.

The grey hand plants ocean plants to give the fish somewhere to hide, live and protection.  The top of the robot collects water samples to be tested in the lab later.  The yellow hand cleans the coral that is dying to try protect it and also allows the fish to eat what it rubs off.

Under The Sea – Kick Start

Here is my sea life creation,  I chose my  Favourite sea creatures. 

I would love to go swimming with turtles. Sea turtles have been around since the age of the dinosaurs and haven’t changed at all in over 110 million years

I would like to see puffer fish.  Sharks are the only animal that can eat puffer fish and not get killed by it as puffer fish are highly  Poisonous.