The Future of Learning

“This isn’t the information age, it’s the learning age” – Stephen Heppell
Two important ideas in this video are the ideas of “learning to learn” and “learning by failing”.

What is the difference between a solid, liquid and gas?

Co-operative Groups

Last week we learned about the Treaty of Waitangi and began to make our class treaty. We worked in groups and had role cards to use.

The Wreck of the Zanzibar Poll 2009

Last term 2009 we read the book ' The Wreck of the Zanzibar'. We put on an online poll to rate this book. Here are the results. A great book to read to the class!

Gas

Gas

Run in place very fast for a minute. Do you notice how hard you are breathing? What you are breathing is oxygen? You need oxygen to live. That's why you can only hold your breath for a certain amount of time.

You can't see oxygen. It's invisible. It is a gas. A gas is matter that has no shape or size of its own. Gases have no colour.

Gases are all around you. You can feel gas when the wind blows. The wind is moving air. Air is many gases mixed together.

Liquid

Liquids

Milk is a liquid. Milk is liquid matter. It has a size or volume. Volume means it takes up space. But milk doesn't have a definite shape. It takes the shape of its container.

Liquids can flow, be poured, and spilled. Did you ever spill juice? Did you notice how the liquid goes everywhere and you have to hurry and wipe it up? The liquid is taking the shape of the floor and the floor is a limitless boundary (until it hits the wall). You can't spill a wooden block. You can drop it and it still has the same shape.

What about peanut butter and jam?

You can spread peanut butter on bread, but peanut butter does not flow. It is not a liquid at room temperature. You have to heat peanut butter up to make it a liquid. When you or your mom makes jam, it is first a liquid. You have to put it in the refrigerator so that it becomes a solid. These are yummy forms of matter with properties of a liquid and a solid.

Solids

Solids

The wood block is solid. A solid has a certain size and shape. The wood block does not change size or shape. Other examples of solids are the computer, the desk, and the floor.

You can change the shape of solids. You change the shape of sheets of timber by sawing it in half or burning it.

eg from wood to smoke

Solids, Liquids, Gases

SOLIDS
• Keeps its own shape
• All particles are very close together

LIQUIDS
• Fills the shape of the container
• Particles are not close together

GASES
• Fills all the space around them
• Particles are not close together

Solid, Liquid and Gas

States of Matter

To begin the term we are going to look at Change of state. Our BIG IDEA for the year is 'Change'. Take a look at this YouTube video to see how the particles are arranged for solids, liquids and gases.