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Anti Gravity Machine – Explore Gravity

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This week’s Nanogirl challenge is to build a machine that can overcome gravity. Watch the video to see how Nanogirl overcomes gravity and explore the pdf to learn about mass.
Complete the Nanogirl activity – Treasure Hunt – Create your science toolkit to help you with this activity

Create

Share

Share the following on your blog.

  • Take a photo or record a video of what you made  – Anti Gravity Glass & Spinning Water

Record what you instigated on your blog. You can write about the following or record your voice or video yourself. Look on the Cybersmart Help page for tips to help you record

  • Test your antigravity machine and share what happens if you make the string longer and shorter.
  • If you jump up as high as you can, how many seconds can you stay in the air
    for? How do you think this would change if you were on the moon, or on Jupiter?
  • How do you think this science is used by engineers who design theme parks?
  • Do you think the length of your string will make a difference?
  • Do you think the anti-gravity experiment would work with paper instead of card?

Super Sight – Explore Refraction

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This week’s Nanogirl challenge is to build a magnifying glass. Watch the video to see how Nanogirl builds a water magnifying glass and use the pdf below to explore some cool things you can do by bending light. Share something you have learnt in this challenge that you didn’t know before.
Complete the Nanogirl activity – Treasure Hunt – Create your science toolkit to help you with this activity

Create

Share

Share the following on your blog.

  • Take a photo of your water magnifying glass and share on your blog.
  • Share how far away from the glass does the arrow have to be before it looks upside down?
  • Describe any other see-through surfaces which make light refract?
  • Can you use your water magnifying glass to look at other tiny things? What
    details can you see which you don’t normally notice?

 

Build a Catapult Plane – Explore Flight

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This week’s Nanogirl challenge is to build a catapult plane. Watch the video to see how Nanogirl builds hers and download the pdf to learn about how planes fly. Test your plane and share how far it can fly.
Complete the Nanogirl activity – Treasure Hunt – Create your science toolkit to help you with this activity

Create

Share

Take a photo of your catapult plane or record your plane flying to share on your blog.

Write how far your plane can fly. Does it fly further indoors or outdoors – why do you think that is?

Super Seesaw – Explore Levers and Catapults

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This week’s Nanogirl challenge is to build a seesaw and use it to catapult objects. See if you can get some of them to land in a box or bowl.
Watch the video to find out how Nanogirl builds her super seesaw and explore the Lab Notes to learn about how levers work.
Complete the Nanogirl activity – Treasure Hunt – Create your science toolkit to help you with this activity

Create

Share

Use your Chromebook’s camera to record your attempts at launching a projectile.

How to record on a chromebook

Share your video on your blog.

Record in your post the number of times you hit the target in a row.

Write what you did to improve your accuracy.

 

Treasure Hunt – Create your science toolkit

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Treasure Hunt – Create your science toolkit
This week’s challenge is to go on a treasure hunt and find some useful equipment for building your inventions. Watch the video to find out how Rocket girl adapts when she can’t find exactly what she is looking for. Share the items you collect for your own science toolkit.

Create

Share

Layout all the equipment you have collected and take a photo.

Insert your image in a new Google Drawing and use the Drawing tools to label the equipment you have collected. For example you could use text boxes and arrows.

Download your Google Drawing as a PNG

Share your PNG on your blog. Write a short description about how you adapted if you couldn’t find the exact item.