{"id":4704,"date":"2021-03-12T18:05:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T18:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/?p=4704"},"modified":"2021-03-15T09:32:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T09:32:41","slug":"super-science-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/kirkcolmprimary\/2021\/03\/12\/super-science-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Science Week!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another week, another celebration! This time it was the turn of British Science Week, which ran from 8th<\/sup> \u2013 13th<\/sup> March and had the theme of \u2018Innovating for the Future.\u2019<\/p>\n

P1-3 pupils celebrated the week from school with various STEM (science, technology, engineering, maths) activities on offer and also learned about inventors who changed the world. Pupils were given a challenge to make a boat to carry passengers and also made their own lava lamps. They also did the coke and Mentos experiment (it exploded too quickly \u2013 much to the delight of the pupils! \u2013 so we didn\u2019t manage to get any photos of this!!).<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, P4-7 were busy celebrating the Science Week from home, in their final week of remote learning. They had lots of different challenges to choose from, including: putting their STEM skills into action to design a solution to a real-life problem linking to the Global Goals; various science experiments and engineering challenging such as designing a marble run, making their own paint, powering a boat using a chemical reaction and creating an underwater volcano; learning about stereotypes and exploring the world of work in relation to STEM careers; and exploring innovations that changed the world. Some pupils did their own experiments, including Callum & Danny who explored how to make slime (although Mum reported it looked and smelled a lot like mashed up entrails \u2013 lovely!!!).<\/p>\n

We all had a brilliant week thinking about and exploring problems like real-life scientists and engineers!<\/p>\n