Today Nursery have been lighting engineers and investigated light and shadows using torches and light boxes. Why not try our Shadow Tubes STEM at home activity, which uses only a torch, toilet roll tube and cling film.
Year 1 and 2 have been designing, building and testing boats this morning. To try this at home, go to our Naval Architects STEM at home activity, which uses only a piece of tin foil and some coins.
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Today Year 6 found out how environmental modellers collect and use data to predict the future. To find out more about environmental modellers, how to help the environment and for modelling activities you can try at home, click here.
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.
The other children will participate in these workshops later in the month.
After school, KS2 families became wind turbine engineers, designing the blades for wind turbines and testing them to see which shape would turn the turbine the quickest. Click here for more information and activities.
This afternoon, the final group of children from South Street became palaeontologists. Can you remember what you found out about Antarctica from your core samples?
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Today it was Year 4’s turn to become palaeontologists. Can you remember how a fossil is formed? Click here for more information about palaeontology.
Today Year 1 became botanists and investigated Venus Fly Traps. To find out more about botany, click here.
After that, 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.
Today Key Stage one and some of their families 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.
What shape are the bubbles?
This afternoon the Reception children had a great time investigating bubbles. Can you ask them if they can remember the shapes of the bubbles that were created by different bubble wands? To find out more and try bubble activities at home, click here.
Today some Year 5/6 came into our Think Lab at Northumbria University to become cryptographers, and some did the workshop at school. This involved encrypting and decrypting messages and discovering how this keeps us safe online.
For more information about careers which use cryptography, activities you can try at home and a secret message to decode from NUSTEM, click here.
