We’ve had a ball with Engineer’s Week this week! Here’s a round up post of all the activities that took place in different classes over the week…
- 2nd Class made Apple Mummies! You’ll find out how they did it here.
Our apple mummies!
- They also did the ‘raw egg’ test. It is definitely something that you could all try at home! Find out how to do it here!
Our raw egg test
What the egg looked like after the vinegar dissolved the shell! We put it over the light to be able to see through it!
- When we looked at electrical engineering we made string telephones.
We made string telephones!
- Bending water? Is it possible? It is! Try it out here!
Bending Water
- We also had the K’nex Challenge, read about it here
Our KNEX winners! Well done Davy, Aaron and Nathan!
- 5th class used ‘Think-Pair-Wordle-Share’ to track what we learned about Engineer’s Week from Monday to Friday. Read all about it here.
Monday’s Wordle
Friday’s Wordle
- They also used Blockly to improve problem-solving skills. You can check out the link here.
The Blockly tutorial – perfect for developing problem-solving skills!
- They also made a podcast about the different types of engineering and which one they’re interested in. Listen to it here.
- On Friday, they started a project to draw skylines – drawing on what they’ve learned about civil engineering. Expect a post about that when they start back after midterm!
- Part of engineering involves developing products and testing them out. We bought a Flashing Robot kit to test out Electric Paint. 6th class carried out great work on these this week – you can read their post here.
The Bare Conductive Flashing Robots kit
As you can see, we had a great week! You can also see our activities from last year’s Engineering Week here, here and here. (It’s very cool to be able to link back to last year’s work – now that we’re a year old!)
9:20 am on February 25th, 2014
The bending water one looks deadly. I’d love to try that one day. :]
11:29 am on March 10th, 2014
[…] This year’s school winner is St Peter’s Primary School in Bray. Ms Brennan’s 2nd Class and Ms Sexton’s 5th Class students wholeheartedly embraced the week, with activities ranging from experiments to the use of Electric Paint to investigate circuits, to a podcast exploring different types of engineering. The week at St Peter’s was captured through photos, video and audio on the school’s colourful blog. […]