Kilcoe Science 23

                      Schull Community College  Science visit. The first years from Schull Community College came to visit our school to teach us some science experiments. We waited for them to set up down our hall. When they where finished we came down to see what was instore for us. They were all in different stations of the room and we were put into partners. Michael and I were partners and the first station we went to was the magnet station.  The student showed us a massive magnet to pick up screws, keys and bolts. The   second thing he showed us was these magnets inside a plastic cover where if you dragged a magnet across the top it would control the magnets inside.  The second station we went to was the strawberry DNA where we sucked the DNA out of the strawberry. It was lots of fun and very fascinating.  The third station  Michael and I went to was the electricity station where they taught u...

 Are classroom had to build tiny versions of New grange using wooden blocks. The teams were Hannah ,  Anna , Lauren , Rosin and Maeve the other team was Jacob , Sam , James , Michael , Patrick. We all had to test if it was study or not by stacking items like folders , books and water bottels. The roof is called a corbelled roof. 

Marble Experiment In September we did a marble experiment on marbles and what would happen if they hit each other. We put two rulers side by side and rolled one marble into the other. We figured out that if you roll a moving marble into a still marble the still marble will start moving and the moving marble will stop. And if you put two marbles moving and they hit three marbles the last two marbles will start moving so this shows us that energy can travel from one marble to the other. It also shows us that the energy can travel through things and not just wires above the road. The marble experiment was a good one to show us energy can travel through things. You can see how we did it in this picture and what we used it was a really fun experiment too so you could try it yourself.  

Discovery Centre Workshop                   At the start of the year we had a workshop with Ally from  the Discovery                 Centre in Co Dublin. Ally came to talk to us about litter and how it affects                   our world in many different ways such as water pollution. Also in the                             evening  she talked to us about climate change and how that effects our                    world. She showed us a few PowerPoints she put us in groups and set us a few  challenges such as match the card to the answer the card but the cards showed the life of a rubbish bag another game we played guess how long it takes for litter to decompose and most of the  class were shocked to know...

Picking Blackberries We decided to go on a walk to pick blackberries. and then hopefully make Blackberry crumble. Of course for it to taste nice as well . We hoped to pick as many blackberries as we could. Then we hoped to have enough  to bake the Blackberry crumble. So we set off on our walk to pick as many Blackberries as we could. We found this blackberry near some bushes. This was our first Blackberry. We found loads in this spot. This was a great place to pick blackberries. We found loads here it was really fun.              These are some of are junior room students getting ready to bake .They were all so excited.                   Here are two of our students. getting ready to run to pick loads of blackberries.                                         Here is one of our 4th class students with a goo...

BUILD A CUP TOWER In September our teacher set us a group challenge to build towers using only paper cups and elastic bands. Here is Jacob, James, Patrick, and  myself Isabelle. We had built the tower by using rubber bands. W e could not use our hands only the  bands. It was  a fun challenge to do. Next we have Laruen, Anna, and Sam. T hey were working hard to do this. You can see the rubber bands on their fingers as well as that they had to position the cups right. Next is Hannah, Maeve, and Roisin.  They had worked very hard to do this.  There is another person in the group. H is name is Micheal. Here is Micheal with them after they made the tower they were very happy that they did this and they finished it too. Once again we have Lauren, Sam and Anna. They had completed the tower with the hard work. They had been happy with what they had done.  Here is Jacob, James, Patrick and myself Isabelle. We enjoyed making this it was fun and hard.  I thi...