Science+Fair

=Science Fair 2012 - Ola School=


 * Simple Machines** was this year's theme for our Science Fair.



These are our Kindergarten,1st and 2nd graders with their science project! "How to feed Jaws," our fish!

Science Fair 2010 - Ola School

This year, the 4th and 5th grade students studied the history of Robots. Then, while making Lego Mindstorm robots, they studied and predicted the future of robotics in our world.

The Kindergarten through 3rd grade students learned about the life cycles of butterflies. They even hatched several out after watching and experimenting with the larvae.

Science Fair 2010 - Kaitieke  Last term all the children had a go at their own science projects. They spent about four weeks on these projects. At the end of them they set up an area with  their work, examples and photos and we held a science fair. Parents, grandparents and friends of our school came to the fair and the children talked to them  about what they had found out. Here are a few of them. Shadanae investigated how to get pure water to drink from salt water.She had already found that if she mixed salt with water and then boiled it, the water boiled away leaving the salt in the bottom.So she wanted to find a way to get fresh water from sea water if she was stranded on a desert island with no drinking water. She boiled the salt water but kept a lid at an angle over the pot. The water (without salt) then evaporated on the lid and dripped off into a container. ||
 * [[image:kaitiekeola/shadanae.jpg width="345" height="244"]] || FRESH WATER FROM SALT WATER

Kody enjoys biking around. He investigated how the different parts of bikes work, like the brakes and the gears. He did several investigations like finding out the effect of how pumped up his tyres were on the distance he could free wheel. He found out the flatter his tyres, the less distance he travelled. He also investigated how far he could travel on different surfaces. He made a bike out of k'nex that could balance on a string tigthrope. He made it balance by adding wings to the bike. ||
 * [[image:kaitiekeola/kody.jpg width="353" height="263"]] || HOW DO BIKES WORK

Clare had great fun mixing a range of ingredients together to create new substances. She learnt how to make a rubbery slime. She made some fake blood and put it over Aaron's leg, to make it look like a terrible accident. She also made some great looking green snot. Yuk! ||
 * [[image:kaitiekeola/Clare.jpg width="355" height="283"]] || SLIME AND SNOT

Josh was really interested in simple machines.He carried out some investigations in to how springs work and pulley systems. He also did some investigating around see-saws. He watched a Youtube clip called Smash a Cabury's egg and decided to design his own version that would flip an egg in to a frying pan. A large marble is pushed along the ramp by a spring at the top. It falls into a cup making a pulley come down that then knocks the tennis ball. The ball rolls down the ramp and hits the see-saw. This flips the egg in to the frying pan. ||
 * [[image:kaitiekeola/josh2.jpg width="270" height="313"]] || FRY AN EGG