{"id":2611,"date":"2020-03-12T09:58:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T09:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/willowbankschoolkilmarnock\/2020\/03\/12\/successful-learners-during-science-week-part-1\/"},"modified":"2020-05-22T08:19:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T08:19:23","slug":"successful-learners-during-science-week-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/willowbankschoolkilmarnock\/2020\/03\/12\/successful-learners-during-science-week-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Successful Learners during Science Week (part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Our first experiment – making a dancing man with a white board pen and water.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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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!<\/p>\n

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The class then took part in an exercise looking a design inspired by nature and had a chance to experience using a microscope.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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In the afternoon the boys experienced the planetarium where we learned about the next steps in moon exploration.<\/p>\n

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On the way back to class the boys had time to explore and investigate the movement of Slinkys.<\/p>\n

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Once back in class the boys took part in a moon quiz where they scored 8\/9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … <\/p>\n

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