Tuesday, September 10, 2013

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
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

Step 3 - DPSM Discover Centre or Science Speaker

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


Step 5 - Technology

Our discovery log 2013/2014



Be sure to visit our 


and  our

Science blog on www.scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com
Nomination for Best School Blog  Junior Spider Awards 2014

Attending the Junior Spider Awards, 29th April 2014

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Award of Science and Maths Excellence 2012/2013

Be sure to check out all our science activities on http://scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/  All of our activities can be found by clicking on the blog archive on the right hand side of this page.  Have fun looking at what we've been up to for the year.

Step 1: Greenwave and Maths

Primrose, January 4th, 2013
Tadpoles, March 8th,2013
Hawthorn, April 4th, 2013
Horse Chestnut, April 4th, 2013
Ash, April 20th, 2013
Swallows, April 20th, 2013
Weathermen (and women!) http://scoilchaitrionajnrmsmcloughlin.blogspot.ie/2012/09/weather-men-and-women.html
Comparing Horse Chestnut and Ash buds http://scoilchaitrionajnrmsmcloughlin.blogspot.ie/2013/02/from-seed-to-tree.html