Thursday 28th November Year 1 and 2 Botanists
This afternoon Year 1 and 2 became botanists and investigated Venus Fly Traps. To find out more about botany, click here.
Hello Battle Hill, we’re NUSTEM. We’re based at Northumbria University, and we work across the region supporting children, families and teachers in exploring science, technology, engineering and maths. We’re particularly keen to help people recognise that careers in these STEM subjects are available to them.
On this page you’ll find a summary of the things we’ve done with your school, and links to follow-up activities you can do at home.
This afternoon Year 1 and 2 became botanists and investigated Venus Fly Traps. To find out more about botany, click here.
Today, Year 1/2 became systems engineers. They designed, created, tested and improved marble runs to see how long they could get the marble to roll for. To find out more about systems engineering and to discover some fun activities to try at home, click here.
This afternoon Year 3 became palaeontologists, exploring fossils and using pollen samples to investigate how the earth’s climate has changed over millions of years . For more information and activities to try at home, click here.