Science Rotations - Thinking like a Scientist

Our 'Think like a scientist' Inquiry started with an experiment rotation today. We learnt about the Earth's mantle and magma, landforms and erosion, liquid density and sedimentary rock. We recorded our observations, wonderings and predictions in our books.

We are all really excited about this Inquiry! We'll be connecting to other ideas like mapping and the environment. We'll learn about famous scientists and the many challenges they've faced. Of course, we'll carry out our own investigations and experiments, too.

Data Squares

This is a data square. It is a way to collect and organise information. We have been using them to explore data over the week. Today we collected information about sustainability across the school. We asked 3 questions:

1. Have you used the worm farm recently? 

2. Are there any reusable or recyclable materials in your lunch box?

3. Is there any plastic rubbish in your lunch box? 

Once we had all the data we could explore organising it in different ways and make statements about what it showed. 

There was a lot of discussion, collaboration, and working together to complete this part of the task.

We created a large bar graph together to show our findings and also used what we have been learning in writing to explain it. Using the SEE (Statement  Explanation Example) structure,  we wrote up one of the things we noticed from the data.