St. Peter's Primary Bray Blog

Discover Primary Science 2nd Class Lesson Brief Summary of our STEM Experiment: Stimulus/Rationale: Recently, 2nd class wanted to investigate different methods of transport for Santa Claus. This was stimulated by a question I posed to the class, ‘If the reindeer went on strike on Christmas Eve how would Santa Claus travel to deliver presents to all the boys and girls?’ We brainstormed some alternatives coming up with rockets, flying cars, jet-pack’s, wings etc. however a quick and feasible alternative we agreed would be a parachute. Task: Design and build a parachute for... 

Our questions were –Which liquid will cause our candy cane to disappear the fastest? To conduct our experiment, we needed: 3 plastic cups, 3 candy canes, vinegar, warm water and cold water. We labelled our 3 clear cups and then filled the cups with warm water, cold water and vinegar. Then, we made predictions. We thought the vinegar would make the candy cane disappear because it was smelly! We voted to put the “hook” side of the candy cane down so that more of the candy was in the liquid. We put one candy cane in each cup and watched to see what would happen. Within...