Learning through play - learning to be a scientist

During Learning Through Play time this week we tried a scientific experiment.

We learnt that to act like a scientist we needed to observe, ask questions, make a hypothesis (what we think will happen), do an experiment and report our results.

This week we looked at some baking soda and smelt the coloured vinegar. As we observed we noticed that the baking soda was white and dry and the vinegar looked like juice but smelt really bad. 

We asked what will happen if we put some vinegar on the baking soda and we hypothesized that it might change colour, get wet or explode. 

Next we each had a go at trying the experiment before we reported our results by drawing what happened. 

You can see some of the photos of our experiments and read some of Team Awa's quotes.

"Its exploding!"

"It sounds like fizzy drink"

"It look like coca-cola"

"Eww! It's stinky"

"It's changing colour"

"Eww! It smells even stinkier now"

"The blue and the red made purple fizz"

"It made fizzing"

"Wow!"

"It's mixing, it's making Aqua."

"They are making fizz, yukky fizz"

"Mine is making dark brown"

"It stinks"