On 25th September P5 spent the afternoon cleaning dirty water. We used gravel and sand to sieve water through. It looked a lot clearer, but not clean enough to drink!
Tag Archives: Science
Air pressure
On 18 th September we learnt about the effect of air pressure on our weather and how it makes air move.
The Water Cycle
Today Mr Rose came in to teach us all about the Water Cycle.
Weather with Mr Rose
Mr Rose came into class again today to help us to learn about weather. We learnt about the water cycle and the states of matter – solids, liquids and gases – ice, water and water vapour.
Final STEM Challenges
Challenge No 1
Challenge No2
Robot Wars comes to Shetland!
This time we had to design a robot which could move using wheels.
Using the knowledge we had gained from the first challenge, we quickly designed and made moving robots which used wheels.
We then went on to race our robots.
Results
In the longer distance race:
1st. Christie and Ronan
2nd. Niamh and Bertie
3rd. Molly and Emily
In the shorter distance race:
1st. Emily and Molly
2nd. LilyJane, Zara and Holly
3rd. Jessica and Tia
Final ‘Big Challenge’ Race:
=1st Ronan and Christie, Molly and Emily
Best programming of robots:
Ronan and Christie, Emily and Molly
Everyone did a super job and had a brilliant time!
Fabulous Fun during STEM Visit
Emma Chittick visited our class today to help promote Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. Judging by the children’s great enthusiasm and fun during the session she certainly succeeded.
The children had to programme the Lego Minds to simulate a satellite orbiting the Earth. Once this mission was accomplished they then went on to programme the ‘satellite’ to avoid space junk using its sensors.
It was super to see the concentration and perseverance displayed by the class as well as their enjoyment of the challenges set.
Emmy: It was really fun and I enjoyed using the iPad.
Christie: It was very complicated but it was great fun.
Ruby: It was really interesting to learn how to move the robot.
Electricity experiments with Mr Rose
We built simple chemical cells, using lemons, to power small LED lights. We connected up more lemons which enabled us to light up more bulbs.
