Science Week

Science Week 2022

  Science Week was an action packed week. 

 It Involved Lots of fun, experiments and results. Science Week occurs around November. Here are some highlights from Science Week 2022. 

Here are some experiments we did during the week- 

Balloon powered cars for this experiment we constructed a car using a shiny carton skewers bottle caps a straw and a balloon using tape and other materials we were able to blow the balloon up using the straw and it worked our end result was a success . 

The catapult for this experiment we used a bottle cap, a ruler, a piece of paper, tape blutack and string.  For this experiment we were put into groups  and our challenge was to make a catapult that works using an instruction. We made our very own catapults we were able to fling stuff using our catapults. The end result was an overall success.

Egg drop challenge for this challenge our goal was to make a structure for an egg and drop it from a height. If the egg remained intact then the challenge was a success. Many people tried using different materials for this challenge such as a sock, balloons, rubbish bags, foam and more. Most of the eggs had survived the drop so I would say the challenge  was a success.

The junior room also did many exciting experiments like creating their own lava lamps using empty bottles water, cooking oil, food colouring and Alka Seltzer tablets. They were a complete success when your turned off the lights and closed the blinds. 

Our Senses Experiment for this experiment the junior room had to guess what the smell was. The teacher would put something  like coffee into a coffee cup with two nose holes and then the children would have to guess what it was. The Juniors had a great time with this experiment.

They also did a experiment using jars, celery and food colouring and water they put 3 pieces of celery  in different jars with water, Red food colouring and blue food colouring.  after a couple of days the class got their results. The celery in water had no progress ,the celery in the red food colouring had turned a small  red and the celery in the blue food colouring  had turned blue

During science week we did a science trail everyone had loads of fun running around and answering questions.

Isabelle testing out the balloon powered car

                                 Sam Answering a question on our science trail.

     

Lava Lamp Experiment

                                        Myra guessing what was in the cup.

                                         Anna and Isabelle with their catapult

                                    Addy and Emma with their dancing raisins 

                                       Jacob dropping his egg from a height.

                                         Patrick using his Balloon powered car

                                           The junior rooms celery experiment.                    

                                             Ina using oil for her Lava lamp. 

                                           James happy with his balloon car.

                                                   

                                    Lauren  and Roisín testing their catapult.

                            Raylan and Hanan observing their celery experiment.

                                 Michael and James constructing their catapult.

                                           Anna testing out her egg drop idea.

                                      Hanan writing about our sense of smell.

                                     Hannah and Roisín  holding their cars.

                               Emma and Ina talking about their lava lamps.

                                                Addy trying to guess the smell.

                                            Roisín testing her  egg structure 

                                        Sam holding his egg drop structure 

                                                Michael's Balloon car in action

                          Addy and Izzy turning their lava lamp upside down.                   

               Anna and Michael  trying to figure out the question out the science trail

i                                  Isabelle testing out her balloon car

                                       James and Michael with their catapult.

                         James and Jacob finding a question on our science trail

                                        James method for the egg experiment.

                           

                                                 Sam's egg survived the drop

                                         Hanan trying to guess what it is

                             James and Jacob answering another question on our science trail.

                                     Lauren dropping  her structure.

                                 Patrick and Sam using teamwork to make their catapult

                                              Aaron guessing what was in the cup.

                                           Patrick using his balloon powered car.

                                 Hannah helping Roisín with her egg creation.

                                  Hannah with her egg structure about to drop it.

                                               Ina writing about our senses.

                                           The junior room looking at their results.

                       Hannah and Roisín working as a team to come up with an answer.