"Science is a way of investigating, understanding and explaining our natural world, physical world and wider universe" (NZ Curriculum).

Students need to lean what science is and how scientists work as well as scientific knowledge.

Science programmes at Eastern Hutt aim to provide hands on investigations that will develop students' curiosity of the world around us and an interest in science.

Sunday, July 22, 2012

Science Badge Work

Dani has been busy working on her Science Badge for Astronomy.  Here you can find out about her visit to the Carter Observatory in Wellington.

Dani's visit to Carter Observatory

She also had to write a story about Space.  Here it is.

Many people think I'm crazy.  I don't.  I am a talking monkey about to drop into the giant red spot of Jupiter.  The humans are making me do it because they don't want to hurt their perfect little bodies so they send down a monkey.  I had been waiting in this little cage for 921 days, or in other words 2.522 years.  Yes, this is long.  Do you think I am crazy?

If you do well I am doing it anyway.  I will be in the centre of the red spot in just over an hour.  Am I scared?  No.  Yes well I don't know yet.

As I get dropped into the gas giant I fall for about ten minutes and then notice the storm inside the spot is weakening.  Seconds after this I think I see little people.  This can't be true.  There's another and another.  I turn off the high speed cameras and pull the parachute and start lowering to the ground.  Now that I was on the ground there was a whole civilisation here.  Many of them come and greet me.  This was amazing.  I was being greeted by aliens.  Big fat yellow dancing aliens.  Crazy!  After a few minutes the chief or as they called it Bottemferg, took be to his hide out.  He told me that to protect them they make a fake storm to disguise them .  They welcomed me like a god and said that they would love me to stay.  So I stayed.

Many people think I'm crazy but I don't   When I got chucked down the giant spot I found aliens.  That is not crazy.