What's your weight on the moon?

Here's an extra challenge for Halberg this week: 

Calculate what your weight would be on the moon (using the instructions below) and leave a comment. 

 Also how much would your cat or dog weigh on the moon? 

iConnect: Moon Lesson #1

1. The earth, moon and sun system


2. Kiwi Kids Science: Moon Facts

3. Kiwi Kids Science: first-moon-landing video

Mad Scientist Afternoon - This Thursday

Just a reminder that our Mad Science Learning Celebration is this Thursday Afternoon from
3 - 6pm. Our classrooms will be open for you to come and see some of our learning, how we made our science movies and what we have been doing in maths and writing that's all related to science too!

Experimenting with ice on an icy morning.

This morning, I collected some 'puddle ice' from the school car park to repeat our salty ice experiment to test our hypothesis and support our conclusions on the effect of salt on ice. Here is our experiment set up:

The final results were: 

The plate with ice and salt took 30 mins 9 seconds to melt completely:

 The plate with ice (no salt) took 47 mins 26 seconds to melt completely.

Check out our WOW work page over the next few days to see out explanations...