Our first experiment – making a dancing man with a white board pen and water.
Exciting times as we all focussed on a webcast where engineers spoke about developing Patrick’s Fair-ground garden design into reality. We learned a lot about having to make small changes to make it possible.
The Transition boys had a great morning actively engaging with robots! The boys showed great manners and listened well to instructions so they could confidently use remote control cameras, wind turbines and a trebuchet to name a few!
The class then took part in an exercise looking a design inspired by nature and had a chance to experience using a microscope.
The class also took part in a very colourful experiment. Each boy made a prediction about the number of colours in each ink. The boys then completed a chromatography experiment to separate the colours. We discovered that most inks in our pens contain a mix of colours.
In the afternoon the boys experienced the planetarium where we learned about the next steps in moon exploration.
On the way back to class the boys had time to explore and investigate the movement of Slinkys.
Once back in class the boys took part in a moon quiz where they scored 8/9.
