Today we had a really cool visit from the people from ‘science in a van’. They taught us lots of new things and it was extremely fun waiting for something to happen. In the morning session we learned about the energy wanting to go one place but something was pulling it the other way. To demonstrate they put a cup full of water on a piece of cardboard with string attached to it and then they grabbed the strings and swung the cardboard around and the cup nor the water fell of the cardboard. They also said that nothing moves without pull or push force and to demonstrate that they pulled a table cloth and it did not move the cups. That was because of friction. Their was not enough friction to make the cups move.
After the morning session they taught us about atoms and how we can use our senses to identify an object. To do that he got 5 volunteers and put blindfolds on 4 of them. One he put gloves on. They had to use one sense to identify a given object.
I learnt that there are 3 states of matter
- Solid
- Liquid
- Gas
I also learnt that when lots of tiny atoms join together they make a molecule.
Another cool thing I learnt was when you put dry ice or C2O into a container and shut the lid the container would blow up.
I had a really great time watching ‘Science in a Van’. I learnt lots of new, interesting, information about states of matter and I would highly recommend it to anyone else who had the opportunity to watch it. It was the best science show I have ever watched.
We had a visit from the people working for 'Science in a van'. It was really fun watching them do lots of little science tricks. I hope you enjoy this little piece of writing about 'Science in a van'. The people who came to our school was Adam (in the picture below) and Emily.
That sounds really fun maybe you can take a video of you doing some of the experiments and put in on your blog.
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