This morning Alba Abad our @EngageNepalScience scientist and Sarah-Jayne Judge ran a fantastic microscope workshop today. We had lots of really interesting activities.
This morning Alba Abad our @EngageNepalScience scientist and Sarah-Jayne Judge ran a fantastic microscope workshop today. We had lots of really interesting activities.
Neil Bratchpeice, Sarah-Jayne Judge and Alba Abad Fernandez came into school this afternoon to run a comic book session. Neil and Sarah-Jayne explained some of the features of developing a character and the children gave Neil their ideas for our very own class character. It was amazing to see what Neil created for us. We also had a chance to draw a cartoon of our own, which we will finish next week.
This morning we had a really exciting workshop with Emma Chittick. She taught us about renewable energy and then we had to make a LEGO wind turbine. At the end of the lesson we tested all the turbines to see which produced the most energy. Kathryn and Isla WON!!!
This week we have been learning more about how our climate is being affected by the increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. We carried out an investigation to see how this affects temperature.
We had a really interesting time this week finding out about Nepal and writing answers to their questions for our video call. It was great to meet the children from Mount View school, Balkot, Nepal.
Today is our final STEM session.
We started off by doing a sort activity about different types of energy.
Then we made a solar and wind farm.
Robert Leask really enjoyed making the power sources with Toby, Roman and Daniel.
Faith said “ It was really good fun to see how many volts our model generated – it was 4 volts!”
Isaac said “I liked fiddling around with all the little pieces. “
Mia especially enjoyed building the wind turbines.
In groups, we have been finding out about the climate in different areas of Kenya and we compared this to the climate and landscapes in the UK. We found out about the Western Highlands, The Coast, the Rift Valley and Central Highlands and the Northern Lowlands.
Here are our posters.