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Page 4 The Searcher Future Engineers – Science Challenge 2013 By Phoebe Cheung This year’s Science Challenge, which happened during the week of March 11th, was a great success. The students put a lot of time working on each of their projects. This year, the Kindergartens and Grade 1s made paper airplanes and flew them. The Grade 2s and 3s made tin foil boats to see which construction would hold the most pennies when floating on water. The Grade 4s and 5s made balloon-powered cars. They were challenged to create a design that would travel the furthest on the gym floor. Finally, the Grade 6s and 7s made bridges out of wooden stir sticks. Their challenge was to create a design that would withstand a maximum weight of 70kg (154 pounds). During this time, students got to have fun as well as learn many new concepts. Congratulations to all the students for their time and effort in the Science Challenge! By Amanda Silveri Kindergarten and Grade One-Paper Airplanes: The learning goal was how to create an aero dynamic airplane so you can get the greatest distance out of it. Grade Two and Three Science Challenge- Tinfoil Boats: The purpose of this was to create an aluminum foil boat that holds the most amount of pennies. Students explored the concepts of buoyancy and weight distribution. Grade Four and Five Science Challenge- Balloon Cars: The concept of this was to experiment with reducing friction and weight when creating wind powered vehicles to attain maximum distance. Learning about the effects of tension and compression on bridge structures.
The Searcher Page 5 Grade 7s “Sea” Stars in Bamfield By Phoebe Cheung Goals of the Bamfield Marine Science Centre • To inspire and connect learners with oceans. • To increase ocean literacy. • To encourage aspiring marine scientists. • To teach students about marine biology. BMSC - Located on the West side of Vancouver Island. - Home of the famous “Whale Lab” which has a touch tank and a real whale skeleton. - The Rix Centre: named after Donald Rix who donated close to $1 million dollars “to support BMSC as a world-class research and teaching facility to inspire discovery, innovation and excellence in marine and coastal sciences”. This year, the Grade 7s got to go to Bamfield, like they do every year, from April 3 rd to April 5 th . It was an incredible and memorable trip for all of us. During the three fun-filled days at Bamfield, we learnt a lot of things about marine biology. For students that were interested in marine biology, it was a great experience of what it is like. On the way there, we took a walk on the Cathedral Trail. We got to saw many trees that were over 800 years old! After a long and bumpy bus ride, we finally arrived at Pachena Beach to have lunch. From there, we started on our West Coast Trail hike. We walked only a small portion of it, but it was still very exciting. There were ladders going up and down so we had to be really careful. When we finished, we took the bus and went to the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre. Once we settled down, we went to our first classes. Some students went down to the docks and some went to paint a t-shirt. We wrapped up the day by celebrating Marcus’ birthday. On the second day, we also went to some more classes, but in the afternoon, we went to the other side of Bamfield to study some tide pools. We explored what we saw in it and did a little presentation on it. Some students rapped and some sang. Even though it was raining a little, we still had a great time learning about tide pools. Finally on the third day, we had some classes in the morning and then went back home. Although we were sad to leave Bamfield, we were also happy to see our family again. In my opinion, I think that the best part of Bamfield was when we went whale watching. Some groups got a glimpse of whales and some groups spotted sea lions. Other parts of Bamfield were very exciting as well. Even though it was only a three day trip, it felt like a long, but fun, trip. We learnt many things about marine biology and we hope that the future Grade 7 students will experience the same when they go to Bamfield.
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