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Dover College Year 6 pupils are setting off to Canterbury for a special Geography day. |
Dover College Year 6 pupils travelled by minibus to Canterbury for a Geography Field Trip. Two ladies from the Canterbury Environmental Education Centre greeted our group.
We walked along the Stour River and stopped in the Westgate Gardens to carry out an experiment.
We measured how fast the water was flowing by using a 10 metre tape. We threw a dog biscuit into the water and timed how long it took to travel 10 metres. We tried this on both sides of the river and in the middle. The flow was faster in the middle.
After that we went back to the Nature Reserve where we played environmental games, had tea and carried out another three experiments.
One of the games consisted of acting out what happened to water molecules through various stages. From rivers, to evaporation, to the clouds and then the condensation and precipitation cycles. It was fun and most of the girls chose to be light and graceful snow flakes whilst the boys went for hale and sleet.
The experiments were about rain water reaching the ground depending on thesix different trees they had to battle.
We also measured the depth of water with a weighted rope and a metre stick.
And last but not least, we looked at the types of grounds and how easily or not it is for water to seep through. We used funnels, paper filters and we filled these with either gravel, sand, stones or soil. We then poured 50ml of water and timed for one minute before measuring how much water had come out.
It was a good day. Thank Mr Fairclough and Miss Morley for taking us there!
By Ella
Dover College Years 5 and 6 started a couple of new activities this term, including Performing Arts.
Mary from Sherbert Moon now comes on Thursday lunchtimes to work with our Junior pupils.
The group of boys and girls fully enjoyed coming up with ideas and acting them in small groups in front of the rest of their friends and Mary.
The session finished with a briefing about next week's emphasis on them being scientists on a South Pole expedition.
