Egg Drop Science

Today we did some science some boy science because the girls where all doing stuff so we decided to try the egg drop experiment. The rules where simple you could only touch the plate. But as you can see when we decided to go big or go home our teacher said that we had to use figs instead of eggs but we still had fun when the person in the bottom left (Jack B) decided to hit the cup which went flying off the table onto the ground lucky not smashing!

Types of Energy

Types of Energy

Energy is due to position or movement of an object - Kinetic and Potential

Forms of energy	What is it?	Example?
Kinetic energy	Energy in movement
Mechanical energy	Makes things move by workable moving part or parts.	Wind up toy, scissors, rubix cube and a pen.
Thermal energy	This energy produces heat by the movement of tiny particles within an object.	Fire, jug, kettle and a pot
Magnetic energy	Energy from attraction of objects made of iron.	Magnets on a fridge
Electrical energy	Electrical energy can be used to move charged particles through a wire.	Electricity and power which is used to power appliances
Potential energy	Stored Energy
Gravitational energy	Energy stored in objects held above the earth’s surface.	A flying plane has a higher gravitational potential then a plane on the ground
Elastic energy	Elastic energy occurs when objects are compressed and stretched	Slingshot, springs and a rubber band
Chemical energy	Chemical Energy is energy that is stored in the bonds of chemical compounds (atoms and molecules).	Batteries, diesel, petrol, natural gas, and coal.
Nuclear energy	the energy released during nuclear fission or fusion, especially when used to generate electricity.	Nuclear power plant - provides electricity

Kinetic vs Potential Energy

Hexegon

Today we had to do a hexagon activity to understand the laws of motion we decided that we need to group everything to a key word first then connect them to each other to make our spiderweb. The reason we are doing this is for our science this term about newton's 3 laws of motion.

I Didn't take this photo! (it's not the best because of the light)

Fire Science

This morning at school (4 May) the boys become pyromaniacs while the girls where learning self defence. We where doing a science experiment about if we light two ends of a candle and supported it between two cups it would rock like a seesaw which all sounded good in practice but sadly our experiment failed because the candle didn't act like a seesaw. ;(
But we watch a video of someone who knows how to do it properly and it worked for them. We discovered that the problem was that we put the wire through the cups rather then on them!