We had a great time celebrating Science Week! We all love trains, cars and planes in our class so we decided to investigate how our toys move. We investigated which toys roll, spin, swing and bounce. We predicted how some of our favourite toys move and then put them to the test! We tested if our toys rolled using a ramp and recorded our predictions and results. Check out our investigation in action… Our results showed that cars, a minion teddy and a yoga ball rolled successfully down our ramp but a 2D triangle didn’t roll. We were happy that we predicted all...
17 Nov
Sixth Class kicked off science week by investigating how clean our hands really are. We timed ourselves, rubbing a slice of bread with our hands before we washed them and after we washed them with soap. We are still waiting to see any changes in the bread but are observing them every day! We investigated which liquids would affect the shell of an egg. We chose liquids that we thought would impact the shell; vinegar, ketchup, hot water and salt, deodorant and coca cola. We left each egg to soak in the liquid overnight and took them out after 24 hours. We discovered that the vinegar had peeled...
5 Dec
22 Nov
Last week we celebrated Science Week around the school. All classes took part in this years theme of HUMAN? What does it mean to be human? We discussed this in 3rd class and came up with lots of interesting thoughts and ideas. We followed this up by looking at our bodies and discussing the heart. We watched videos and learned all about the heart and how to take our pulse. We decided to test what happens to our pulse when we engage in different activities. To make the test fair we had to find out what our resting heart rate was. We took our pulse after sitting down for 10 mins and timed...
18 Nov
This week in school, we celebrated science week. The theme we were looking at was ‘HUMAN?’. We have been learning about the respiratory system and exploring how our lungs work and help us to breathe. We made a model lung using balloons, plastic bottles and plastic bags. The bottle acted as our rib cage, the balloon was our lung and the bag worked as our diaphragm. Take a look at our lungs! Our model lungs We also looked at how humans have worked to make advances in medicine and helping humans. We created our own version of a bionic hand. We looked at how bones, tendons...
18 Nov
This week we celebrated Science Week by looking at the theme ‘HUMAN?’. We looked at electricity and the developments humans have made with electricity over time. We made our own circuits and then decided to make our own light houses. These lighthouses had to; Stand on their own,light for 10 seconds, be 3D. Take a look at our lighthouses!
29 Nov
We had a great time investigating and discussing all things scientific this year! One of our favourite activities was when we linked our PE lesson with Science. We decided we would investigate our heart rates and the impact that certain exercises and activities have on our heart rate. How to take your heart rate To begin with, we discussed and took our ‘resting’ heart rates. This was a little bit tricky at first (some of us were worried we didn’t have any 😅) but after some perseverance we became comfortable calculating them. We did this by counting the...
21 Nov
Junior Infants were very excited about Science Week. This week, along with STEM for Fun we got to explore magnets and how they work. Early in the week we explored magnetism. We talked about what magnets are and watched a short video on magnetism. We then investigated things that were magnetic by testing our magnets out around the school and yard outside. During Aistear we got to explore magnets and magnetic objects more. We used magnets to test items that might be magnetic and categorise items that were magnetic and non magnetic. Finally at the end of the week we looked at a...
20 Nov
This week in 5th class, we has great fun doing lots of different experiments to celebrate science week! We have been learning all about the respiratory system and what happens to the body when we breathe. We completed a STEM activity and created our own model of the lungs to show how they work when we breathe! https://youtube.com/shorts/t1nGcD6ev28 We investigated pitch using glasses and some water. We wanted to find out how to make the highest and lowest sound we could. We placed all our glasses in a line. We used glasses of the same size and shape to make sure it was...
18 Nov
