{"id":14068,"date":"2014-09-08T13:53:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T13:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/?p=14068"},"modified":"2014-09-08T13:53:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T13:53:53","slug":"dunoon-primary-pupils-do-really-small-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/?p=14068","title":{"rendered":"Dunoon Primary Pupils do Really Small Science"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Pupils from Dunoon Primary School discovered the world of nano-science with researchers from the University of Strathclyde. The ReallySmallScience<\/em> group, led by Joy Leckie from the Chemical Engineering Department at Strathclyde, demonstrated nano-science to P3 and 4 classes using hands-on experiments. Each class learned how tiny nano-sized things are and that everyday items such as wobbly jelly naturally contain lots of nano-things.<\/p>\n

The pupils got a chance to be scientists for the day, by making their own \u2018nanojellies\u2019 and working on posters which will be judged in a few weeks. Certificates will be awarded to all the pupils who took part and prizes for the winning poster from each class.<\/p>\n

Joy Leckie, former Dunoon resident said: \u201cIt was great to come back to my home town of Dunoon and offer a fun day of science to the pupils. The classes were a joy to work with and I\u2019m looking forward to coming back to see the finished posters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Krystyna Duncan, ReallySmallScience member and PhD student from Strathclyde University, helped out on the day. Krystyna said: \u201cIt was great fun to go back to primary school for the day and engage with the children to give them a taste of science. Everyone had fun participating in experiments and posters. Hopefully we have inspired some future scientists.”<\/p>\n

Elaine Stewart, acting Depute Headteacher of Dunoon Primary said: \u201cWe had very positive feedback from the staff who really enjoyed themselves as well.\u201d
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Pupils from Dunoon Primary School discovered the world of nano-science with researchers from the University of Strathclyde. The ReallySmallScience group, led by Joy Leckie from the Chemical Engineering Department at Strathclyde, demonstrated nano-science to P3 and 4 classes using hands-on experiments. Each class learned how tiny nano-sized things are and that everyday items such as … Continue reading Dunoon Primary Pupils do Really Small Science<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4174,3360,225],"tags":[4487],"class_list":["post-14068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-primary-schools","category-science","tag-dunoon-primary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14068"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14072,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14068\/revisions\/14072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}