{"id":1884,"date":"2018-10-10T16:19:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T16:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2018-11-15T17:57:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T17:57:22","slug":"lego-engineering-at-its-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/2018\/10\/10\/lego-engineering-at-its-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Lego Engineering At Its Best!"},"content":{"rendered":"

On this lovely Wednesday Miss McNicoll’s P4-7 were lucky enough to have a visit from our Lego engineering extraordinaire, John!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

John came in to talk to pupils about their topic for this term; renewable and non-renewable energy sources, he was able to introduce them to ways they can experience these renewable energy sources we hear so much about for themselves and explained some very technical energy terms to them.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Our pupils got to hear all about the transfer of energy, and witnessed it first hand using a heat camera! – Extremely\u00a0impressive military-grade equipment! In addition to this the pupils were given the challenge to use the Lego in their own way to design a machine which used a generator and some form of system to turn it using ‘kinetic energy’ that could give them the most volts. No surprise it ended up being Grace and Innes’s team (who were appropriately name ‘The Volts’) that pulled it off in the end with a staggering 17.9 volts! Closely followed by Cody and Daniel with an impressive 17.7 volts! Tight race kids!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Onto the next challenge… this one was a little bit harder and definitely required more steps. The pupils had to design a Lego machine… powered by a renewable energy source! So there could be no little hands turning any levers to make it work. The pupils were given outlines of this and amazingly, despite how difficult it proved to be at times, and fidgety, and tough… They managed it. As you can see in the photos we have some hydro powered Lego machines and some wind powered machines – Well done folks!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Finally, we rounded off our day with a little solar challenge. Since the weather was so kind to us we were able to make some solar powered cars to race in the playground! It was a bit grey and spotty at times but we managed it and you can see all the delighted and fiercely competitive faces during their races.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Overall, we have had a fantastic and extremely informative day and we have nobody else to thank but John of course for all his patience with us and for bringing all these fantastic gadgets to the school for us to play with. I hope he’s inspired some of us into being safer and more conservative with our energy use and perhaps even towards considering a career in a STEM field.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Lego Renewable Energy Input\u00a0<\/em><\/span>
\nOn the 10th or October at Kirkcolm Primary school the upper class got a Lego Input on Renewable Energy. First John told us a bit about Renewable us a bit about Renewable Energy. Then we had the challenge to make a windmill or a water turning that was fun. After break we finished them of up onto lunch time I made a water turbine. When we came back from lunch we made solar powered cars it was tricky and hard me and Miley raced with our classmates when we finished our car. The sun had disappeared but John brought lamps but it didn’t work as good as the sun. After we raced it was time to pack up I didn’t want them to go we said thank you to John that was Kirkcolm primary schools Lego Input I hope if you get this opportunity to get what Kirkcolm got I hope you liked it as much as we did.<\/em><\/span>
\nMackenzie Adams P.7\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Please have a flick through our lovely photos to see what we’ve been getting up to!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n