This afternoon Luke and I have been working with New York’s Y5 children. We’ve used spectroscopes to look at the light from the sun, and explored ultraviolet (UV) and infrared (IR). If you’d like to find out more about our Sun and solar physics take a look out our page here.
Here are some IR pictures we took during the sessions.
Big thanks for having us over this afternoon, it’s always a pleasure. Today Year 3 and 4 looked at medical physics. We’ve a page of pictures and videos to take your further. After school, Luke worked with some parents building catapults!
Enjoy exploring the link, and we’ll see you again soon!
This morning Luke and I were at Rainbird Primary school. We’ve explored magnets with Reception, became brilliant botanists with Year 1 and then held rocks from space as geologists in Year 3.
Each class was kind enough to let me take videos of their class pets with my microscope.
You can find the snakes video here and the grasshopper video here.
Big thanks for having us over this afternoon, it’s always a pleasure. Today:
Enjoy exploring those links, and we’ll see you again soon!
Thanks for having us Year 3 – we enjoyed looking at rocks with you. If you’d like your world to rock some more (see what we… oh, you noticed that, huh? Not as clever as we thought? Drat…)
Anyway: see our Meteorites activity page for a recap, and to explore craters from your sofa.
This morning we’ve been working with Y6 and Y4/5 at Ivy Road Primary.
Y6 were exploring the invisible world of light and learning about the work that Solar Physicists do. The picture on the left is Y6 shown in infrared – you can see the heat from their bodies! We also looked at videos of the sun.
Y5 found out about Medical Physics and explored some of the technologies that help healthcare professionals diagnose illnesses. We looked at x-rays, found out about MRI scans and ultrasound, and use infrared radiation to detect our pulse rates. Want to find out more – check out our medical physics page.
NUSTEM staff have had a busy week at Ivy Road, and are looking forward to coming back soon!
We’ve been
in today blowing soap bubbles of all sizes with reception. All sizes, but not all shapes – and maybe you can describe why that’s the case?
See the NUSTEM Bubbles page for more things to do and explore
We’ve been building bridges with Year 6 today using K’nex! It was great to see so many different designs!
Civil engineers design and build bridges of all different shapes and sizes – just look at the bridges spanning the River Tyne to see how different bridges can be!
Why don’t you have a go at building a bridge at home? If you don’t have any K’nex, try using dry spaghetti and sellotape instead or any other materials you have around the house! Be creative!
Today we’ve been busy at Ivy Road Primary School