Balloon Poke Science

In Science this term, we have been learning all about matter. What's the matter?...... you ask?
No not that type of matter! We are learning about the type of matter that makes up everything around us!

Matter is everything around you. Matter is anything made of atoms and molecules. Matter is anything that has mass and takes up space.

We started our investigation into matter, by carrying out a 'balloon poke'. Mrs M filled up three balloons with three different states of matter. We got to poke each balloon and then write down our observations of the matter inside. Here are some pictures of what we found!

Hailey got to poke the first balloon! For some reason we all had the urge to put our hands over our ears!

The matter that came out of this balloon, we decided was see through, light, loud - GAS

Eric was our next balloon popper......but for some reason...the balloon just would not pop!

Still trying to pop it!..

Even Alby came and had a go!

And finally we managed to pop it! We found the matter in this balloon was runny, liquidy, cold and heavy - LIQUID

Danica was in charge of popping the last balloon.

Danica was a little unsure at first....but she popped it!

Inside this balloon was cold, hard, heavy ice! We decided this was a SOLID

Poor Hamish's work got soaked in the process!

After all of our balloon popping fun, Mrs M explained to us what matter was, and we watched this cool video on liquids, solids and gasses.

Did you know our whole world is made up of matter in its three states; solids, liquids and gasses! We can not wait to learn more and tell you all about it on our blog! Stay tuned!

Love Tremendous T4