We Harnessed the Wind

Term 3 Week 2 : We Harnessed the Wind

This week, we continued watching the film called The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. We carefully focused on one of the lines of inquiry which was "What leads to advances in scientific knowledge?".

We got some more useful information to be used for our exciting experiment with the garden as well.
Then we noted on a piece of paper about what we learnt from this interesting film. During the film, we also predicted what was going to happen next too.

We read some books this week such as Solving Science Questions, What's Going to Happen?, and What's the Problem?. The books interestingly inspired us to be better scientists. We got a lot of ideas for our scientific gardening projects. We hopefully think that our vegetable garden will be successful by the end of this term.

Please talk with your child about the gardening project and what materials or equipment to be gathered and brought to the school on next Tuesday.

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