Science Week

This year’s National Science Week focused on ‘The Science of Light’.  To investigate some of the ways we can observe this topic, the Year 3/4 neighbourhoods looked at a ‘Camera Obscura’ (pinhole camera) as well as a solar balloon.  Both experiences opened up interesting discussions and piqued the children’s scientific curiosity.  Below are photos of both experiences, including the inverted image that was created by the pinhole camera.

This is what Louis W. had to say about science week:

“This week was science week and we made a solar balloon that heats up using the suns heat to fly and the other thing we made was a camera obscura that was a dark room with a tiny hole in the wall and on the boards there was the image out side, up side down!  It was so epic, you could see people out side. I had a fun time. It was cool.”

This is what Lexi had to say about science week:

“Three white boards were all adjusted to our eye and then we saw the trees some other kids went outside and we saw them upside down.  This is because our eyes are like a lens then our brain flips it around.  We all have this and it is totally normal to have this. The white board was like a projector screen. We did this experiment in the media room. The whole room was dark pitch black otherwise it would not work. There was a little whole in the media and it was acting like your eye with out a brain.”