Tuesday night

One of the High Schools here hosts an annual Science Festival open to the community and best of all it's FREE! Upon arriving there are people everywhere. Pretty much all the classroom Blocks have something science related on show. On the grass areas in between the Blocks are more activities.

Some of what we saw ......

Under pressure - the children participated in this experiment showing the benefits of pressure. On top of a table were placed 21 inflated balloons. Another table is then placed upside-down on the balloons. The experiment was to see how many people could stand on the table before bursting any of the balloons.

So with adults holding, securing the table children started to pile onto the upside-down table.

In the end, after 25 children squeezed onto the table none of the balloons burst. All the children were asked to carefully hop off and adults were then asked to try burst the balloons. Only after the adults started jumping up and down on the table did the balloons start to pop!

Pest Fish

Pest fish are a real problem in the local waterways. The children got the opportunity to see the difference between the native fish and the pest fish. We picked up an activity book to take home with us.

Wednesday

Going through the Pest Fish activity book the next day there were some very cool activities to do resulting in some good discussion.

That afternoon we headed down the local creek behind the caravan park where there are fish and turtles. Our mission was to identify what sort of fish lived there.

A turtle coming up to nibble on a toe

Friday

A trip to the library ...... and a day of read-louds!