‘Whacky Scientists’ investigate Solubility

Our Grade 5 class was asked to help the ‘Whacky Scientist’ investigate Solubility. The class was divided into groups of 3. Each group was led by the teachers and some experience Grade 11 scientist. Each group did some experiments to help them understand Solubility better. The boys used the technology of their choice to document the experiment. The resources and instructions were loaded on the website so that the boys could refer to them again and be able to access them from home. Have a look at the wacky website to see how they went about this.

Using video in science

Show Me is an interactive white board app that allows me to demostrate a topic. While I am drawing, I can record myself explaining a topic and then I can share that video with my class - and with other classes too.
Tom Campbell

Science

A website that discusses apps for Science: http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/01/18-great-science-apps-for-ipad.html

SlideShare

SlideShare is fabulous for sharing presentations, documents, PDFs, videos and webinars- all available via a standard internet browser

Brain Pop

Brain Pop is packed with animations on science, health, technology and interactive quizzes

Molecules

Molecules provides 3D renderings of molecules to manipulate and play with

Periodic Table

Periodic Table shows the  periodic table of the elements

Google Earth

Google Earth provides satellite and aerial imagery of populated areas of the planet (only available from the US App Store)

Planets

Planets is a 3D guide of the solar system - a great free app!

Sparkvue

Sparkvue conducts real-time measurement, data visualisation and analysis including an accelerometer to record and graph acceleration