Mad About Science Incursion - By Adison 6BC

In the first week of term 3 on Wednesday we had someone from Mad About Science come to our school. All of the year 6’s got to participate in this exciting experience. The man that came to our school was a scientist and his name was Caleb. Caleb showed us some experiments and we even got to do some! We got to play with instant snow and everyone was told that it was a special kind of substance that absorbs water and expands. After that Caleb did a trick with static electricity with a balloon, he rubbed it on someone's head and made a can move. The next trick he did he used a tea bag and a match first he emptied the tea bag then stood it up right, last but not least he set it up on fire and when it finished he blew it and it disintegrated. A little bit after that we made bottle cyclones. We had a bottle that we would have to try and make a cyclone in the water. A lot of people made one. Caleb showed us even more experiments that were really cool! We even tried to create  our own little tsunamis. We were given a tub of water, a piece of a tablet and a test tube. We had to fill the tube with water and quickly put the tablet in and shove the test tube under water for the experiment to work. We had a great time learning about meteorological and geographical changes.