Sunday, 11 June 2023

Year 5 Explore Energy

Today we began our sustainable energy topic.  We looked at what energy is, its many forms and how it transforms. 

Humans love all our clever uses for energy but going forward we need to ensure we create it sustainably.  

Just for fun we got into groups to experiment with our own energy transformation.  The challenge - How are we going to lift the feather without touching it? 





The answer was by rubbing the balloon on our hair to create static electricity and then hovering it above the feather. Next time we have EfS we'll be looking at how we generate electricity in NZ.

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