We were thrilled to welcome a group of 55 Outreach and Wharenui Provision students to a Super Science Kit Day at our Sumner campus in June.

We provided five interactive science stations for our learners to rotate around, each focussing on a different area of science: zoology, physics, chemistry, geology, and botany.

The zoology station had a bee theme. Students were treated to seeing a real beehive (without the live bees), examining beekeeper clothing up close, looking at frames from the beehive with honeycomb and bee brood. They were able to dig out some pollen from the frame with a toothpick, and uncap a cell to find a pupa/bee!

The physics station focussed on magnetism. Students had fun exploring the repel and attract properties of magnets. 

At the chemistry station everyone used kitchen ingredients to make an erupting volcano! The homemade natural hazard featured corn flour slime and playing with a magic milk experiment!

Our student palaeontologists couldn’t resist the geology station! Using handheld tools, no one got tired of digging for plaster of Paris fossils. Excavating is fun when you know what you're digging around with friends!

At the botany station learnt about the parts of a flower, decorated a pot, planted marigold seeds and were thrilled to take home their new pot plant to care for!

At lunchtime, everyone had great fun hanging out with new friends and playing. One student, who was attending her first KIT Day, was overheard to say: "I don't feel different anymore".