Thursday, January 15, 2009

Step 1: Prescribed Activities

2008/2009
Please use the link to our Science Site http://www.scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/ to see photographs of the science investigations we have undergone this year. The index of all science articles is to be found in the Blog Archive listed on the right hand magin of the page.

Classes involved in doing the activities:
· Ms. McLoughlin · Mrs. Newell · Ms. Crotty · Ms. Flaherty · Ms. Tierney · Ms. O’Connor · Ms. Costello · Ms. Long · Ms. Warde · Ms. Treacy · Mrs. Browne · Ms. Cunningham · Ms. Lavery · Mrs. Geraghty · Ms. Ferguson · Ms. McGuire · Ms. Gilligan . Ms. Dillon . Ms. Murphy . Ms Lally . Ms. McGuire . Ms. Hynes . Ms McLaughlin . Ms. Minihan . Ms. Warde

Discover Primary Science activities done in the school this year:
· Design a Bridge · Paper Helicopters · Can you balance? · Rainbow Spinner · Make a lighthouse · Strange Sounds
· Dancing raisins · Diving drops and sinking feelings · Air pressure · Surface Tension and Bubbles · Friction, slip or stick? . Surface Tension and Bubbles . Mirror Writing · Make a Lever (wag the dog) · Creepy reflections and floating finger . Acrobatic clown · Design a boat · Make a diver · Rocket launch · Water fountain . Snake Spiral · My Reaction Time · Myself-fingerprints · How Much Air Can My Lungs Hold · Creeping Colours · String telephone · Starch is everywhere . Make a rocket . Starting and stopping
· Dyeing with Red Cabbage · Growing tomatoes . Which papers absorbs best? . Exercise your heart
Other experiments
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Step 2: Visit to a DPS Discover Centre

A) Visit to a DPS Centre: Photos of this visit are to be seen at http://scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/2008/10/blog-post.html


· Senior Infants visited St. Brigit’s Garden on the 17th of October 2008


Step 2: Scientists in our school

B) Invite a Scientist or Engineer to our school: Photos of these visits are posted on our Science Site

Visit from the science group "Educate Me" with a great presentation about Space.http://scoilchaitrionajnrmsmcloughlin.blogspot.com/2009/01/visit-from-educate-me-about-space.html

Visit from the Army, http://scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/2008/09/army-visitors.html
Visit from a Garda, http://scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/2008/09/garda-visit.html
Visit from an Occupational Therapist, http://scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/2008/09/visit-from-occupational-therapist.html
Visit from a Chef, http://scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/2008/10/thursday-october-9th-2008-one-of-girls.html
Visit from a Computer Engineer, http://scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/2008/11/science-and-engineering-in-our.html
Visit from a Mobile Phone Executive, http://scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/2008/11/science-and-engineering-in-our.html
Visit from a Geologist,
http://scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/2009/03/geologist-in-school.html
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Step 3: Participating in a science event

Participate in a science event: Science Open Day. Photos of this event can be seen on http://scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/2009/01/open-day.html

· Ms. McLoughlin’s Senior Infant Class and Mrs. Newell's class held their Science Open Day on Friday, 16th of January 2009.
This event was open to other classes, teachers, and staff of Scoil Chaitríona Junior.
Scoil Chaitríona Senior classes, teachers and staff were invited.
The invitation to attend our science open day was extended to parents, realations and members of the community. We were delighted to see so many visitors. Everyone really enjoyed the event.

Visit to a Bubble Show in Galway Education Centre during Science Week Nov. 08 http://scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/2008/11/science-of-bubbles.html

Visit to the Planetarium in Galway Education Centre during Science Week Nov. 08 http://scoilchaitrionajnrmstierney.blogspot.com/2008/12/planetarium.html

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Step 4: Other Science Activities

Other Science Activities in the School

1. We have submitted our own activities to the Gallery Section of the primary science website. Some of our photographs have been published on each of your gallery pages. http://www.primaryscience.ie/site/resources_gallery_photos.php

2. We are participating in the Greenwave Project this year. http://greenwave.ie/index.php?p=gallery&q=photo_gallery&pg=1&species=0&county=7 Photos of frogs in Spring http://scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/2009/03/frogs-in-spring.html Lifecycle of the Froghttp://scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/2009/03/lifecycle-of-frog.html

3. We are registered for the Green Flag programme.
Litter Picking http://scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/2008/10/green-schools-litter-picking.html Slow the Flow http://scoilchaitrionajnrmrsbrowne.blogspot.com/2009/01/slow-flow.html

4. We have set up a school website (with science page). It is running since May 07. We are beginning to have other schools worldwide contact us about the articles on our science page. (see http://captaincuriosity.net/teacher-lab/?p=141 and http://scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/2008/05/kite-flying.html for comments)

Our school address is
http://www.scoilchaitrionajnr.blogspot.com/
Our Science page address is
http://www.scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/
and Our Award of Science Excellence page is http://www.scoilchaitrionajnrscienceaward.blogspot.com/

5. We have subscribed to the www.science.ie monthly electronic science newsletter. http://science.ie/

6. We have used some of the flash activities from the primary science website in our classrooms including:
Make a Rocket
http://scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/2008/12/fizzy-rockets.html
Starting and Stopping
http://scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/2008/11/raw-and-cooked-eggs.html
Keeping warm - Testing insulators
http://scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/2009/01/blog-post.html

7. We have been involved in a great many investigations and projects other than the science activities listed in the DPS manual including:
Are involved in a "School Projects Around the Globe" - Kite Flying project based in the U.S. http://web.me.com/jmsalsich/Kites_Around_The_World/Partner_School_Projects/Partner_School_Projects.html
Kite Flying
http://scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/2009/04/kite-flying.html and
http://scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/2008/05/kite-flying.html
Visit to a Bubble Show during Science Week http://scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/2008/11/science-of-bubbles.html
Visiting the Planetarium http://scoilchaitrionajnrmstierney.blogspot.com/2008/12/planetarium.html
We have a school garden
http://scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/2009/01/school-garden.html and http://scoilchaitrionajnrmrsbrowne.blogspot.com/2009/06/school-garden.html
Nature walks
http://scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/2008/09/trip-to-beach.html and http://scoilchaitrionajnrmsflannery.blogspot.com/2008/10/welcome-back.html and http://scoilchaitrionajnrmsflaherty.blogspot.com/2008/10/visit-to-beach.html and http://scoilchaitrionajnrmsmclaughlin.blogspot.com/2008/10/2nd-classes-day-at-beach.html
Setting up and watching bird feeders http://scoilchaitrionajnrmsmcloughlin.blogspot.com/2009/01/looking-out-for-birds.html and http://scoilchaitrionajnrmrstreacy.blogspot.com/2009/01/feeding-birds.html
A Bat in Our Class
http://scoilchaitrionajnrmsmcloughlin.blogspot.com/2009/02/bat-in-our-class.html
Bug Exploring
http://scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/2009/04/mini-beast-adventure.html and
http://scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/2008/09/bug-hunting.html
Telling the Age of Trees
http://scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/2008/09/telling-age-of-tree.html
Potato Maze
http://scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/2008/09/potato-maze.html
Planting Bulbs
http://scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/2008/11/planting-bulbs-9th-october-2008.html , http://scoilchaitrionajnrmscrotty.blogspot.com/2009/02/our-plants.html
and http://scoilchaitrionajnrmrsbrowne.blogspot.com/2009/01/crocus.html
Using thermometers and rain gauges http://scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/2008/11/thermometer-and-water-gauge-wednesday.html
Making paper aeroplanes
http://scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/2008/11/making-paper-aeroplanes-thursday-13th.html
Watching frogspawn to frogs
http://scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/2009/03/lifecycle-of-frog.html
Constructing structures http://scoilchaitrionajnrmrstreacy.blogspot.com/2008/10/construction.html
Visiting the local Bottle Bank
http://scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/2008/10/bottle-bank.html
Science of Smarties
http://scoilchaitrionajnrmsflaherty.blogspot.com/2008/10/smarties-experiment.html
Looking after our teeth
http://scoilchaitrionajnrmsflannery.blogspot.com/ and http://scoilchaitrionajnrmslally.blogspot.com/2008/10/our-teeth.html
Food tasting
http://scoilchaitrionajnrmstierney.blogspot.com/2008/12/food-tasting.html
Making a hovercraft
http://scoilchaitrionajnrmsmcloughlin.blogspot.com/2009/01/hovercraft.html
Watching Mayflies
http://scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/2008/05/mayflies.html
Watching Ants
http://scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/2008/05/ants-in-garden.html

Taking part in the Agri Aware “Meet the Spuds! Competition”
http://scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/2008/04/our-potatoes-are-growing.html
Raising butterflies from caterpillars
http://scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/2009/04/caterpillars-and-butterflies.html
Wormery

http://scoilchaitrionajnrmsmcloughlin.blogspot.com/2009/04/setting-up-wormery.html
http://scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/2008/04/our-wormery.html
Cooking Scientifically
http://scoilchaitrionajnrmisscostello.blogspot.com/2009/02/making-crispy-buns-to-show-heating-and.html
Smelling Test
http://scoilchaitrionajnrmsmcloughlin.blogspot.com/
Looking at Bubbles
http://scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/2009/03/bubbles-galore.html
Magnet Morning
http://scoilchaitrionajnrmsmcloughlin.blogspot.com/2009/03/fun-with-magnets.html
A Sense of Touch
http://scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/2009/04/senses-touch.html