Wednesday morning was weird. The sky was an eerie red and a little bit scary. Many of us wondered what it was. The Weather Channel gave us the answer.
Sydney had been hit by the biggest dust storm in over 40 years. The dust came on strong winds from the central west of the continent.
It left everything covered in a thick layer of red dust. In some places it rained red mud.
Health experts advised us all to stay inside, no physical activity and all windows and doors closed.
Many classes explored the reasons for the red dust and expressed their feelings about it in both pictures and words.
Hope you enjoyed the work of Stage 2S which was inspired by the dust storm.
The students have had a ball exploring all aspects of Light ‘n Sound. The CSIRO Scientists are great because they tailor the general concept to fit with the work classes are working on.
Look at the sheer delight on the faces of these active, excited young scientists.
The collection of space capsules, rockets, space stations, Hubble telescope is huge.
Hope you enjoyed a glimpse of the Space capsule that first circled the moon and came back to Earth. Look at the burn marks on it. It had to land in the ocean so it didn’t smash to bits or burn up.
The Space Capsule was sent into space on top of a big rocket like in the picture.
When did man first step on the moon? Can anyone tell me? Isn’t the picture inspirational?
The way man gets into space now is on the Space Shuttle which can go back and forth like a plane,
here is a picture of one of the Shuttles. How many were there? What were their names?
The Space Shuttles take astronauts to the Space Station now.
As we were walking through the Air and Space Museum I heard a kid say “they shouldn’t being doing that now.They should be doing it at night when we can’t see them doing it!” he was really indignant.
We thought it was great because we got to see that this amazing model was so simple to put together. With rolls of gold and silver foil, wire, sticks, black paint and glue we could make one too!
Is anyone at BSPS up for the challenge? After all aren’t we are all studying stars and space and things like that next term or the term after.
Look what we learned about flight. Look at all the people having a fun time playing around with all sorts of experiments about elements of flight. It as a really exciting place to be!
Students in our school absolutely love science and especially doing all sorts of interesting activities inspired by those we do with the CSIRO Lab on Legs Program.
This term the theme is Force and Motion and all classes have learned heaps about these concepts.
Do you know some even sat on a chair of 500 nails, others lifted someone twice their weight and so the exctiing activities went on.
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