The Senior HQ Visit to University of Canterbury!

As part of our science inquiry this term, we planned some workshops for our students at the nearby University of Canterbury.  This was an extension of the science workshops we had been teaching in the Senior HQ to give the students exposure to physics, chemistry, writing up of experiments, kitchen chemistry, electronics and scientist studies!  We grouped all of our students into 3 large groups to visit the chemistry lab in the new Ernest Rutherford building.  We then walked or took the bus to visit the lab across two days in Week 6.  Each workshop had 4 different and interesting chemistry based stations that the groups moved around:

Station 1 - bunsen burners and changes in states
Station 2 - chemistry equipement and usage
Station 3 - molecules and structures
Station 4 - mixing and reactions

Check out the wee scientists from one of the groups in action: