Year 7 Science: All Stars and Rainbows

Even if the longest term of the year is coming to an end, and we all feel exhausted, our little Year 7 scientists have been busy up to the very last moment feeling the “magic” in our Science labs. They followed a method without any explanation from their teacher and ended up creating the different colours of the rainbow. Something that seems easy but that allows our girls to follow instructions without explanations, and that creates independence as well as developing team collaboration. And this is not the only thing our little scientists, they also made constellations using skittles; what can better model the bright colours of stars if not skittles?

This was a fun way to read a map of the sky and to use a model to represent something so complex like constellations! Our Year 7 students dealt with a sky map, Latin names of the constellations and some extra food!

– Martina Stolzi
Science teacher

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