In the past week, Kathy’s kaiawhina have been doing science with Talei.

We have been learning about ecosystems! We even got to make our own, (as you can see in the pictures.) There needs to be a consumer, a producer and a decomposer.

Consumer: a consumer is something that eats other things. E.g an animal or insect.

Producer: a producer is like an apple tree, it makes its own food instead of finding or hunting it.

Decomposer: a decomposer is something that breaks down something like Fungi or worms.

The equipment I used were;
A clear container
Something that can poke holes through the lid (I used a drill, be sure to ask an adult to help )
Stones
Soil (use gloves when handling soil)
Seeds or a plant
Snails
Worms
Food and water for the snails and worms

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My snails names are: Mr Krabbs (biggest one) Turbo (small one) Houdini (hiding)

Marble Run

Marble Run 

Today Kathy's kaiawhina did a challenge with Nicole (or Miss J.) we had to make a marble run out of; 6 pieces of newsprint, 2 sheets of A4  paper and 2 meters of cellar-tape. It had to stand on its own (without the help of any furniture) and roll at least 3 meters.

It took us about 1/2 an hour to make and in the end it was worth it. There were a few muck ups but we did really well in the race with nearly 5 meters! 

next time I would make the whole structure stronger and make the second tube wider instead of it fitting inside the first one making the marble get stuck in the middle. other than that I wouldn't change anything!

Maybe we didn't come 1st but we had so much fun and thats what counts!

SKYE