{"id":12283,"date":"2023-09-21T12:16:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T01:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/?post_type=article&p=12283"},"modified":"2023-09-21T12:16:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T01:16:55","slug":"science-week-celebrations-continue","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/article\/science-week-celebrations-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Week Celebrations Continue"},"content":{"rendered":"

As an extension of our Science Week celebrations, Mrs Mia Sharma, Science Teacher in the Secondary School, hosted a series of Science Shows for the girls in the Primary School. Starting with Kindergarten, Year 1 and Year 2, Mrs Sharma organised a range of hands-on activities for the girls to learn about static electricity. This included a soft-can race powered by static electricity and a balloon relay in which each team had to use static electricity to \u2018attach\u2019 as many balloons to a person in their team as possible. Mrs Sharma explained the science behind how static electricity works. She introduced the girls to atoms and explained that everything in our world is made of atoms. She then dived in deeper to explain that atoms are made up of even tinier particles called electrons. While we cannot see electrons with the human eye, we can see what happens to an object when electrons move. The girls created their own dragonflies and, by rubbing a balloon on the carpet, they created static electricity that then made the wings of their dragonfly flap.<\/p>\n