5.3 Class blog
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Hi! My name is Chloe. Last Friday Grade 5 went to the Science Centre to learn more about energy. We first went to the Kinetic Garden where we got to play with objects that had kinetic energy. Some of us noticed that there was other types of energies that was being used in some of those objects, like sound energy and gravitational potential energy. After the Kinetic Garden we went to a workshop to learn more about energy and how it is used. We all got in groups and received a worksheet with instructions and questions to the experiments and questions about energy. Multiple of the experiments we did involved marbles because marbles have a lot of both potential and kinetic energy in them and also ramps to place the marble. We placed different marbles on the ramp in different positions (one large marble would be in the middle of the ramp while the other marble would be placed on the slope part of the ramp). After playing with the marbles and ramps, we got to make our own marble machine. Everyone got a board with holes in it and a box of materials. The materials in the box included: wooden sticks (chopsticks), clips, slopes, cups, a funnel and a bell. We had to use these materials to make the marble go as slow as possible. The hardest part of this task was that we had to finish this in only 25 minutes! After the workshop we got to look around the front of the centre, which had cool optical illusions and a HUGE marble machine. Most of Grade 5 and I looked at the marble machine a lot because we thought that it was really cool to see the marble go around the machine without any problems. My favorite part about the Science Centre was the Kinetic Garden because there were so many fun materials to play with. My personal favorite object was the sound dishes because you could hear things clearly through the sound dishes no matter how far apart the 2 dishes were. Overall, the Science Centre was really fun and we learnt a lot about energy!
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