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.
Today, Year 4 became materials scientists, testing the properties of different materials and deciding what they could be used for. Click here to find out more about what materials scientists do and for fun activities to try at home.
This afternoon, Year 1 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.
Look Bubbles!
Today Reception children had fun with bubbles and predicted what would happen if they blew bubbles with different shaped wands. Click here for more bubble information and activities.
On Thursday afternoon Key Stage 2 children and their families came to our family systems engineer workshop. Click here to discover more systems engineer activities that you can do at home.
On Wednesday afternoon Key Stage 1 children and their families came to our family systems engineer workshop. Click here to discover more systems engineer activities that you can do at home.
This morning, I’ve been in Rainbird Academy working with the Y5s and 6s. We’ve been learning about the science of the Sun and have been talking about the work of Solar Physicists.
Here are some images from our infrared camera.
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.
Today we’ve been busy at Rainbird Primary School
This morning Year 1 became brilliant botanists and you can find out all about it by clicking here.
What a busy afternoon Rainbird’s Year 2 class has had. We’ve been exploring floating and sinking with a little help from the youngest Billy Goats Gruff. We’ve designed, tested, taken measurements and redesigned to ensure that the goat made it safely across the river.
Now you’re back home, follow these steps for more floating and sinking fun:
To find out exactly what we did in the session click here.
