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On the 7^th of June, the Year 4 students participated in the Mad Science incursion about natural disasters. Oscar the instructor conducted a few experiments. Our first activity was about tornadoes. We each had little bottles with water and glitter in them. When we shook the bottles, we made little tornadoes inside our bottles. We also learned in 2003 humans witnessed the first fire tornado. Oscar showed us a mini fire tornado. It looked cool and we couldn’t wait to see what was going to happen next. He used an empty teabag, emptied it and lit it on fire to show us how hot air rises and it flew up into the air. Next our class got little pieces of instant snow. We learned if you put water on it, it will grow and if you put it in the sun it will shrink. Our last activity was to build a structure with pasta sticks and play doh and we had to make it withstand the earthquake shaker. Many groups were successful; however, one group’s structure broke and fell. Overall, we all had a fun and exciting learning experience.

- Robert E, 4C