Let the party begin…

Happy anniversary to Chemistry,

Happy anniversary to Chemistry,

Happy anniversary to ‘The Periodic Table’,

Happy anniversary to Chemistry!

During week one, students learned how to read The Periodic Table, understand the elements and their chemical symbol and identify if the element existed as a solid, liquid or gas at room temperature. The students designed their own ‘elemental’ party hats to begin the celebrations.

As part of week two celebrations, students explored the states of matter that are displayed on the table and methods in which these states of matter can be changed by playing with party balloons that were filled with ice, water and oxygen. With party hats and balloons as part of our learning, the anniversary celebrations had definitely begun. 

Week three and four focused on changing state and observing the physical and chemical reactions that can occur when making Periodic Table cupcakes. The students became Baker’s and they had to understand the chemistry behind the mixtures they were making, discussing the change of state and whether the changes were reversible or irreversible.

It has been a chemically exciting start to Term Two and the anniversary celebrations will continue each week.

Science Enrichment Program

The International Year of the Periodic Table

Joondalup Primary School offers an after school science program that aims to inspire young people to become science leaders. The program is designed to cultivate and pass on a sense of wonderment and scientific curiosity by engaging students in a variety of hand-on investigations that explore all the fields of science as taught in the Australian Curriculum.

The United Nations has designated 2019 as the International Year of the Periodic Table. The Year will coincide with the 150^th anniversary of the tables creation by Dmitry Mendeleev. The after school program will explore all things ‘elemental’ in a variety of hands-on investigations by exploring the endless and magical realms of combining elements to create mixtures, suspensions and solutions. The program will also include an excursion to Belridge Secondary College Science Laboratory.

Congratulations to the following Year Five students who have been chosen for the program in Term Two; Fajri, Imogen, Harvey, Amelia, Linde, Wes, Angus, Agok, David and Cloe.

Mrs Phillips

Science Teacher