Water in the Bible

Here are 2 of the Bible stories we found that made us think about water.  We thought about what the water 'did' in the story then we decided what we thought God used the water for.  Last of all we thought about what the water was like.  God uses water in many ways and we can learn from Him!

...the Bible tells me so!

We have been learning about water.  As scientists we are studying the way water changes (solid, liquid, gas), how we see it in creation (the water cycle) and testing lots of other interesting questions about water that arrive in Room 10 each day!
We know that God teaches us through the Bible...so what does the Bible say about water?  Does God teach us things by using water in these stories?
We started by thinking of all the Bible stories we knew that had water in them:

...and this is only what we thought of on the first day!  Can you help us by adding a comment that tells us other Bible stories that have water in them?  Or can you help us think of the message God might be telling us when He uses water in the Bible?  Add comments please!

Being scientists

Our goal this term in science is to "Develop a delight for the world which God has created around us."  This means we get to investigate (explore and play), ask questions, try things out and think about explanations we come across along the way.  There are lots of big words and big ideas to really stretch our thinking.  When Dr Ferrar came to our class the other day, he taught us about 'matter'.  We tend to call matter 'stuff' but we are learning to choose much better words now!  See if you can understand what we were thinking about:

More big words!  See if we can tell you what Dr Ferrar was teaching us in this diagram...

Dr Ferrar strikes again!

You know we are in for fun when Dr Ferrar arrives wearing his lab coat and carrying a box of 'tricks'!  This time we were learning about 'dry ice' or frozen carbon dioxide.  We even got to hold (or juggle!) little pieces of it in our hands.  It was so cold...but it almost felt like it could burn us.  Strange!  Check out the fun we had in these pictures!  Ask us what was happening...

...and it all ended with a big bang when Dr Ferrar made a dry ice bomb - a very dangerous thing to do so as the Mythbusters say, "Don't try this at home!"  We stood well back and watched as a little bit of water and some dry ice created so much pressure in a Coke bottle that it exploded!

The water cycle

We have been learning about the water cycle with Mrs Williams.  To show how it works, Mrs Williams hung a plastic bag with some water in it on our window.  Here it is:

You can ask us what all those big words are - we really do know!

Slowly the inside of the bag started showing condensation and (if you look really closely...) it even rained!

If you want to be clever, you can call rain 'precipitation'!

Hamish the scientist

Hamish showed us how to make a tornado in a bottle!  You will need:

• 2 plastic bottles
• a special joiner (which he bought from Te Manawa when he was having a special visit there with his dad).  If you don't have one of these you could experiment with the lids of the bottles - drill holes in them and join the bottles with really strong tape (duct tape).
• water!

1. You put water in one of the bottles then use the special joiner to stick the other bottle on to it upside down.  Make sure it is on tight!  Then turn it so the water is on top.

2. Then you 'swirl' the bottle around... (thanks Mrs Williams for helping!)

3. Soon you will see bubbles forming and you can stop swirling it...

4. Now you have a tornado in the bottle!  

Wonderings...

There is a wall in Room 10 with lots of questions on it!  Each person in the class has a question about water that they will try to find the answer to as we learn this term.  We already have some amazing investigators and researchers hard at work.  Keep watching to see how we go!

The super scientists of Room 10...