This past week our grade 6 students had an incursion from Mad About Science. Here are a few reflection peices written by our students about the incursion and some photos from the day.

 

Reflection about our Incursion 

By Christine , Miriam , Lily , and Biak.S

Our incursion was about electricity, We learnt about conductors and insulators, We also learnt how to connect wires to the battery. We learnt about the different types of electricity and how they work.

We connected the wires to the battery to make light, and we powered propeller things with batteries and wires. We had to go in a circle and hold hands and two pairs of people had to hold a glowstick sort of thing and when we all held hands the glow stick thing glowed and made noise.

We learned how to make a light bulb and how it worked. We also used materials to try to see if they could connect to the light bulb and metals can only connect and make electricity. We also learned that if there is rubber underneath the car then the electrical shock won’t harm you and if you put your sleeve over your palm then it won’t harm you as well. If someone’s hair goes up then it means that the person is about to get an electric shock.

Our favorite parts were when we did the experiment of the propeller and had to follow instructions to make the propeller work or press a button to make the light glow. 

⚡Overall, the incursion was really fun and we absolutely enjoyed it. ⚡

 

Reflection About Incursion-Electricity

By Tanveer and Christian   

The incursion was about electricity. We learnt about how electricity worked by doing activities such as lighting up a lightbulb and powering a small fan using circuits.?

Tanveer’s favorite part: My favorite part of the incursion was when we were the first one to figure out everything even though we needed assistance.        Christian’s favorite part: My favorite part of the incursion was when my group made a flying propeller.

Overall the incursion helped us to investigate how electricity reaches our home.

 

Electricity Incursion      

Xave, Archer, Quinn 6TA

On Monday, the 23rd of May, the year 6’s had an incursion all about our current inquiry topic, electricity. The person that came to the school to inform us was Dylan, who is a scientist who specialized in circuits and electrical currents.

Dylan taught about things such as how electricity functions, the different variations of electricity and how electricity travels to places. He taught us that a conductor attracts electricity and transports it, and how an insulator prevents it from freely moving, and stops it from burning up.

Dylan had also let us experiment and analyze how electricity and batteries work, Dylan did this by letting us utilize a battery's electricity to give power to a lightbulb. We did this by using the wires attached to the bulb, and connecting them to the positive and negative ports of the battery. This sent out an electric current, which heated up the filament and illuminated the bulb.

For our next task, we were given a propeller on top of the same equipment and found out that when we used multiple batteries to conduct electricity on the same object it generated a better result. In addition to this Dylan also gave us four diagrams to follow using the battery and the lightbulb.

After that exciting endeavor we were given a multitude of circuit components and were tasked to power a grounded propeller with the components we were given. The goal was to be able to power a motor, which would in turn, power the stationary propeller. Once we completed the goal, he showed us how we could make the propeller fly, by tapping the propeller on the underside of it. With the other equipment, we were allowed to extend our circuit to power multiple things at once.

We had a lot of fun, but eventually it had to conclude. We packed up and he told us to go to a website run by the people he works for. The bell then rang, and all the students ran out the door, knowing just a bit more about electricity.

 

Electricity Incursion

By Daniella and Zara

On Monday we had an incursion on electricity,it was with a company called “Mad about Science”. We learned how to conduct electricity with batteries,how to light up a light bulb, and we also learned how to spin a wind turbine with batteries.We learnt about how lighting conducts electricity and how the human body has electricity with atoms. Our favourite part was experimenting with the lightbulbs and trying different things to conduct them like keys.

 

Grade 6 electricity science incursion!

This term all the year 6 students have been learning about electricity and how it is functional in day to day life. On Monday 23rd of May, all the year 6 students had a science incursion. In this segment of work we got the opportunity to learn more about electricity and how we can use objects to see if they could conduct electricity, but first we met our host, Dylan. Dylan then asked us questions of what we already knew about electricity. After that he showed us that our bodies can conduct static electricity by using a balloon and his luscious hair! Then he made everyone get in a circle and hold hands, next he got tubes with wires in them and since there were 2, both the tubes had to be facing different ways or it wouldn’t function.The electricity went through us and powered the other side and when one piece of the circuit, in this case a person let go, it broke, then it  would stop working but if we reconnected it, it would work again.

Then he sat us on the floor and let us pick our groups. We chose a table and waited for instructions, next Dylan came around and gave us batteries for each person and a tiny light bulb with 2 wires connected to either side. We functioned the light bulb by connecting the wires to either side of the battery. We noticed that the brightness changed , due to the amount of batteries connected to the wires . After that , we received fans and powered them also by connecting both their wires to the battery. As a known fact, the more batteries, the faster the blades spun.Then Dylan came around and gave us a bunch of objects like wood,screws and keys,then we experimented to see what conducted the circuit.We realised that only metal items conduct electricity .  After that, we received our own circuit sets which we used to experiment different types of circuits. Then Dylan asked us if we had any more questions. Overall we had lots of fun as well as we learned how to conduct static electricity with our bodies, what conductors are and how batteries work as well as many more. 

We thank our host Dylan from Electrical buzz for coming out to help us expand our knowledge about electricity! 

By Izzy,Ryan,Amreen and Roohani