Award of Science and Maths Excellence 2014

Welcome to our Discovery Log

Scoil Chaitríona Junior

Renmore 

Discovery Log
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2013/2104

Step 1 - Greenwave and Maths

Click on each picture to see our log for each entry:

Our daily weather recordings

Our class anemometer

Testing our anemometer again

Recording weather in September

Some of our Greenwave photos:

Primrose 18th March 2014

Hawthorn  23rd March 2014

Horse Chestnut  26th March 2014

Ash  5th April 2014

Swallow 25th May 2014

We have been following the signs of spring and recording them on the Greenwave.ie site.

Look at the great news we got today:

Click on the photo for the latest news!

Step 2 - Prescribed activities and Maths

Click on each picture to see our log for each activity:
Energy and Forces

Foam rockets

Integration with maths: identifying 2D & 3D shapes

Measuring distance of flight

Integration with maths: Measuring distances, standard measures

Launching rockets

Integration with maths: Measuring distances in strides (non standard unit of measures)

Lions in cages

Mixing colours and rainbow spinner

• Flying Helicopters http://scoilchaitrionajnrmsmcloughlin.blogspot.ie/2013/10/flying-helicopters.html Maths: Recognising and counting 2D shapes
• Lions in cages http://scoilchaitrionajnrmsmcloughlin.blogspot.ie/2013/10/lions-in-cages.html
• Racing colours http://scoilchaitrionajnrmsmcloughlin.blogspot.ie/2013/10/racing-colours.html
• Forces: Push & Pull Pop Up Santa toy http://scoilchaitrionajnrmsmcloughlin.blogspot.ie/2013/12/blog-post_8675.html
• Electric quizes http://scoilchaitrionajnrmsmcloughlin.blogspot.ie/2014/01/circuits-and-electric-quizes.html
• Bridges http://scoilchaitrionajnrmsmcloughlin.blogspot.ie/2014/02/bridges.html
• Ramps, gravity, friction and measurement http://scoilchaitrionajnrmaths.blogspot.ie/2014/02/measurement-with-non-standard-units.html
• Acrobatic clowns http://scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/2014/03/acrobatic-clowns.html
• Hovercrafts http://scoilchaitrionajnrmsmcloughlin.blogspot.ie/2014/03/hovercraft.html
• The un-burstable balloon http://scoilchaitrionajnrmsmcloughlin.blogspot.ie/2014/03/the-un-burstable-balloon.html
• A talking bottle: What happens when air is heated? http://scoilchaitrionajnrmsmcloughlin.blogspot.ie/2014/03/a-talking-bottle.html
• Floating and sinking http://scoilchaitrionajnrmsmcloughlin.blogspot.ie/2014/04/floating-and-sinking.html

Materials

Making music with water

Integration with maths: Comparing & ordering notes (and containers) according to size and pitch

Making eggs float

Integration with maths: Measuring quantities

Our tornado

Integration with maths: Measuring quantities

Invisible ink

Integration with maths:  Measuring quantities

Volcanoes

Eggs speriments

Solid or liquid gloop?

Marshmallow maths

Integration with maths: 2D and 3D shapes

• Is it waterproof? http://scoilchaitrionajnrmscrotty.blogspot.ie/2013/12/is-it-waterproof.html
• 3D shapes http://scoilchaitrionajnrmsflaherty.blogspot.ie/2014/02/3-d-shape.html

Step 3 - DPSM Discover Centre or Science Speaker

 

Maths week in the aquarium

Explorer's Education programme

Click on each picture to see the log for each visit:

Dissecting a heart with Medtronic

Visit from The Bug Doctor during Science Week

Visit from a mad chemist: Dr. Malachy Thompson, during Science Week

Visit from a Health Care Assistant (Kidney Dialysis Unit)

Visit from Little Cells during Science Week

Visit from a Product Builder with Boston Scientific

Visit  from  a  textile  technician with  GMIT

Visit  from  an  electrician

Visit from a Montessori teacher

Visit from a Nigerian chemist

Step 4 - Our science event

Click here to see all about our Space Day

Click here to see us in action