The science museum sleepover

Yesterday my class had a sleepover  at the science museum. My first activity was to make a polygon night lamp. First, the paper was made into a Octahedron  and then we made it into a night lamp by putting batteries and a lamp inside to make it glow and change colour. Next we went down to the basement level and looked at how the Fibonacci numbers fit in with some animals. The animals we saw were snails, corn snakes, tortoises and cockroaches. Bees breed like this;1,1,2,3,5,8,13 and so on. One drone and one queen makes a drone and a queen. Then the queen makes a drone and the other drone makes a drone and a queen. In other words, a drone makes a drone and queen but a queen makes a drone. You get the pattern now, don't you?
 The Fibonacci pattern works like this; It starts at one, and then you add the number before it, like this: 1+0=1 Then you add one to one and you get two. 2+1=3, 3+2=5, 3+5=8, 8+5=13 an so on. A nautilus has the same pattern on the shell as the Fibonacci pattern, as you can see here, on the diagram.

It's the same with trees, too. They split into branches in the same numbers.

Then we had a maths treasure hunt were you had to look for certain devices and things in the new maths gallery. My team, that included Giovanni H, Naum, Nicholas, Serena, Noam and Mrs Morgan came in the top 30, which was quite bad, but not bad. There were 50 teams so we didn't come last. The good point is, we had lots of fun and learnt new things like the Globtik Tokyo (an oil carrier) has carried more things then any other ships.

 Then we went to our floors as it was time to sleep. We were in the Who am I? section of the science museum. I washed my face and tried to get to sleep but it didn't work. So I read a book to try and tire myself out. Still, I was not sleepy. So then I counted all the lights that looked like stars and I counted at least fifty. But I was not tired. After a bathroom break, I went for a walk around that exhibit and did it about 10 times. Then I got a drink and talked to myself about what might happen tomorrow and how good it would be. While I thought about that, I managed to go to sleep.


The next day I woke up at 5 O'clock and waited for the others to wake up. When everybody woke up, we went to the IMAX theatre and watched a film about invisible things that are all around us. Things that are too small, too fast, too slow or unseeable light waves, that only special equipment can spot. Quick things like a drop of water can do things you don't get to notice. For example, the drop of water, when it hits the water, bounces back up and gets smaller and repeats that. A flower blooms very slowly and you can only see it if you have time lapse cameras. Then there are carbon atoms, which are too small and can be seen only with the best microscopes. Finally, there are waves of light, that are invisible and different waves can be seen with different cameras. Below are some pictures of what I explained about.





Then, last of all we went to the wonder lab, where you can discover some things you might not know about. They turned on the Tesla coil, which is a loud electric device. When you turn it on and you don't cover your ears your head really hurts. That happened to me today. The Tesla coil is pictured below. Other things include a strange thing where you either press 'sip' or 'spray' and unless the other person has done 'spray', then pressing 'spray' won't really work. Finally, there is also a friction slide, where you slide down on mats and you see how strong the friction is. There is a mini course where you build your own thing to slide down the mini astroturf ramp. I may have missed a lot of other things, but I listed my 3 favourites and what they do.

Well, I have finished this blog for now and I'll see you soon! Bye!