Four Year 6 students, Katya, Samuel, Mereki and Lisa, showed their teamwork and science skills by winning the Term 1 – Year 6 ScienceiQ competition. This is the first time these students have participated in the competition. Each student will receive a First Place Certificate and a prize. Our school will receive a certificate acknowledging the team’s achievement. They will now mentor the Year 5 team who will be competing in Term 2, and studying hard to repeat their success when they tackle the Term 3 quiz later in the year.

ScienceiQ is a series of separate online science competitions conducted by the Science Teachers’ Association of Western Australia (STAWA). The quizzes test student knowledge, skills and understandings in most areas of Science, such as astronomy, biology, chemistry, physics, bio-technology and science investigations.

Time-Lapse EARTH is a video created by Bruce Berry, Jr., from footage taken by the astronauts on the International Space Station. Found below are Bruce’s notes on the making of the video. See more of Bruce’s work at http://bruce-wayne-photography.com

Notes from the artist:
All Time-lapse sequences were taken by the astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) (Thanks guys for making this available to the public for use!) All footage has been color graded, denoised, deflickered, slowed down and stabilized by myself. Clips were then complied and converted to 1080 HD at 24 frames/sec.

Hope you all enjoy it and thanks for watching!

P.S. It would be a dream to actually be up there in the ISS. Btw NASA, if you need a Biochemistry Ph.D. to do some work for you up there, I’m your man, LOL!

Music: “Manhatta” composed & performed by “The Cinematic Orchestra”
itunes.apple.com/us/album/cinematic-orchestra-presents/id527221766

All rights reserved to their respective owners.
Edited by: Bruce W. Berry @ Website: http://bruce-wayne-photography.com

Image Courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory
NASA Johnson Space Center, The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth
http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov
http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/Videos/CrewEarthObservationsVideos/
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/

Footage Note: The slower video represents a closer resemblance to the true speed of the International Space Station; this footage was shot at one frame per second. Clips are all marked with an *.

Locations of Footage in the order they appear:
1. A Jump over the Terminator
2. Sarychev Volcano
3. From Turkey to Iran*
4. Hurricane Irene Hits the US
5. Indian Ocean to Pacific Ocean Through the Cupola*
6. Central Great Plains at Night*
7. Aurora Borealis over the North Atlantic Ocean*
8. Aurora Borealis from Central U.S.*
9. Up the East Coast of North America*
10. Myanmar to Malaysia*
11. Western Europe to Central India
12. Middle East to the South Pacific Ocean
13. Aurora Borealis over Europe*
14. City Lights over Middle East*
15. European City Lights*
16. Northwest coast of United States to Central South America at Night
17. Moonglow over Canada and Northern U.S.*
18. Stars from the Pacific Ocean (1)
19. Stars from the Pacific Ocean (2)
20. Stars from the Pacific Ocean (3)
21. Stars and the Milky Way over the Atlantic*
22. The Milky Way and Storms over Africa (1)
23. The Milky Way and Storms over Africa (2)

Source: http://ssep.ncesse.org/2015/04/video-time-lapse-earth-celebrating-ssep-mission-7-flight-experiments-to-iss-in-june-on-spacex-7-and-3600-mission-8-students-now-in-proposal-writing-home-stretch/

The aim of the Einstein-First project is to introduce students to the concepts of Einsteinian Physics early in their educational life. Our modern understanding of the Universe is based on four theories
– the theory of special relativity
– the theory of mass – energy equivalence
– the theory of gravity, called general relativity, – the theory of particle interactions called quantum mechanics.

Einstein played a central role in the development of these theories; hence we use the term Einsteinian Physics to refer to both special and general relativity, developed by Einstein, and quantum mechanics which is founded on the introduction of the photon by Max Planck (Planck, 1901) and Einstein (Einstein, 1905).

Einsteinian physics brings a radical change to our concept of the universe. The teaching of Einsteinian physics also provides the opportunity to present the historical struggle to determine the truth. The human dimension of this struggle is fascinating and relevant to the understanding of the scientific process.

Einstein First presentation

How many grains are there in 1 kilogram of rice? Room 11 set out to count 100 grams of rice in the hope of answering this question. What is the answer? You will have to check back and see.

Skill Tester
Hi my name is Blake. Four weeks ago our class was given an assignment to make a skill tester. We had two weeks to build it. My skill tester is made of copper wire, wood, metal, a light, screws and batteries. A skill tester is made to test your skills and improve them. It improves your reactions, steadiness and focus.

How it works is one side of the wire is in the wood and the other connected to the battery. The battery connects to the light and the light also connects to a wire and when the metal wire touches with the copper wire it makes a circuit and the light turns on. When the light turns on it signals that you lose. I have put tape at the bottom of each side of the copper wire to rest the handle so that the light doesn’t turn on. I also have tape on the handle to insulate it so you don’t get an electric shock when it touches.

In our class, we have been making skill testers. You have to guide a metal loop through a bent metal coathanger or a metal wire without touching it. If you touch the wire, the light in the circuit lights up. Some of the skill testers are really hard, especially Kane’s and Phoebe’s! You can learn how to make a skill tester on wikihow.com. They are cheap, easy and fun to construct. Room 11 has been learning about batteries and how they work. Aditi