This afternoon, Year 5 became astronomers and found out about the development of the telescope throughout history as well as about the role of women in astronomy. They discovered what stars are made from and how astronomers know this by analysing the light they produce. To find out more about astronomy and to try some activities at home, click here.
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
This morning, Reception children and their families took a trip to Mars with Little E the robot rover from the book “Are we nearly there yet?”. When they got there they designed the Mars landscape and built Mars rover vehicles to explore this new world. For more information about the robots in “Are we nearly there yet?”, more books about space and for activities for you to try at home, click here.
This afternoon Year 1 became botanists and investigated Venus Fly Traps. To find out more about botany, click here.
After school KS1 families became systems engineers, and designed, created, tested and improved marble runs. Click here for more activities to try at home.
Today Year 5 became poets. They read the Ice Cores poem, written especially for this workshop by Katrina Porteus and found out more about they way Katrina writes her poems. Year 5 then used the scientific knowledge they developed in the last session to write their own poems. Click here to find out more.
This afternoon, Year 5 became astronomers and found out about the development of the telescope throughout history as well as about the role of women in astronomy. They discovered what stars are made from and how astronomers know this by analysing the light they produce. To find out more about astronomy and to try some activities at home, click here.
After that, key stage 1 families became systems engineers, planning, creating, testing and improving marble runs.
This afternoon, Reception children took a trip to Mars with Little E the robot rover from the book “Are we nearly there yet?”. When they got there they designed the Mars landscape and built Mars rover vehicles to explore this new world. For more information about the robots in “Are we nearly there yet?”, more books about space and for activities for you to try at home, click here.
Sunset bridge
This morning families took on the challenge of building the strongest bridge possible and testing this using weights. For more information on structural engineering, click here.
This morning Reception children and their families took a trip to Mars with Little E the robot rover from the book “Are we nearly there yet?”. When they got there they designed the Mars landscape and built Mars rover vehicles to explore this new world. For more information about the robots in “Are we nearly there yet?”, more books about space and for activities for you to try at home, click here.
This afternoon Year 2 became botanists and investigated Venus Fly Traps. To find out more about botany, click here.
After school KS1 families became systems engineers, and designed, created, tested and improved marble runs. Click here for more activities to try at home.
Today it was the turn of the second Year 5 class to explore what happens underneath the ice in the Antarctic. Click here to discover more. Later on in the afternoon, families worked together to design, build and test wind turbine blades to see which was most effective. For more activities to try at home, click here.
