Science Outside the Square

Liguistic, logical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, musical, visual/spatial, naturalistic and kinaesthetic… What are your strengths and weaknesses in terms of these? This online analysis will generate a Multiple Intelligences wheel based upon Gardner’s eight multiple intelligences.

To start the activity, sign in and fill in a little bit of information about yourself. You can then begin to answer the questions. When you have finished, click on the submit button.

Acknowledgements to the Birmingham Grid for Learning for this link.

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Some recent Year 9 and 10 assignments have included the option of making a crossword puzzle using key words for the topic being studied. This online crossword puzzle generator is extremely simple to use.

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Try this game to see if you can correctly relate four numbers to give the right answer. Then have a look at the other activities on this site.

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If you get some marshmallow bunnies for Easter, you might like to try out these crazy experiments aimed at establishing the weaknesses and strengths of marshmallow bunnies.

Come up with an experiment of your own to test the destructibility of marshmallow bunnies - the most innovative (and feasible) entry posted by a Katikati College student by March 29 will win a box of Cadbury Favourites.

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Try this site out. Every time you refresh your screen, a new maze is created.

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The amoebas split in two every minute, so if the jar was full at 12 noon, it must have been half full at 11.59 a.m.

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Since there were only 2 blue hats and 3 yellow, the only way that Richard could possibly know the colour of his hat is if the other two were wearing blue hats - so his hat would have to be yellow.

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The time taken for the Earth to make one complete revolution around the Sun is known as a solar year. A solar year doesn’t contain an exact number of days - in fact there are 365.242 days in a solar year. By adding an extra day every leap year, our 365 day calendar doesn’t get out of step with the seasons.

If you’re interested in this and related topics, Katikati Library has recently purchased a book called “Why is Uranus Upside Down and Other Questions About the Universe”. Written by Fred Watson, it was first published in 2007 by Allen and Unwin.

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Amoebas reproduce by splitting in two. An amoeba which does this once every minute is placed in a jar at exactly 10 o’clock in the morning. At 12 noon the jar is full. At exactly what time is the jar half full?

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She borrowed a horse. the 18 horses were then divided as follows: the eldest daughter had 9 horses (half of 18), the second eldest had 6 (a third of 18) and the youngest had 2 (a ninth of 18). This left one horse over to return to Farmer Smith.

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