I hope you are enjoying your summer holidays.
Just in case you are feeling bored, which I doubt it, here is a wee picture summary of some of the things we did last session.
Hope you enjoy the rest of your summer holidays.
Music by the Jelly Bricks…..Only Smile
My second year class are currently studying Biotechnology. Here is an excellent website by the American museum of natural history.
Have fun finding out about our very,very,very small friends…..and not so friends.
Click here for a link to the website: American Museum of Natural History
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Here is a video taken with my first year class when we demonstrated that carbon dioxide gas is heavier than air.
We put two plastic bags at the end of a long piece of wood.
Then we balanced the beam of wood and poured out the invisible gas made by adding vinegar and baking soda.
Later we tested the gas with lime water. The gas turned the lime water milky. This test told us the gas was carbon dioxide.
Well done 1/7.
My S1 class enjoyed making three dimensional pyramids showing the numbers of organisms at each level of the food chain.
The base of the pyramid is larger because there are lots more plants than rabbits. Lucky rabbits.
Some questions.
You can download a pyramid of numbers cut out sheet and enjoy making a 3D pyramid of numbers for homework.
Download your own cut out pyramid of numbers here.
Click the above picture to have some fun completing food chains.
This is a great site to help you understand the electric circuits you have been studying.
You can run it on your computer or download it and use it offline.
I set my young scientists a Christmas Poster competition, all they had to do was dream up the best present that a scientist could find in his/her stocking on Christmas morning.
Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
This is a video made of the pictures of the light experiments which my first year science class took during the lessons.
They used their mobile phones in an appropriate manner and bluetoothed the pictures to my phone.
This is an excellent example of using mobile phone technology in the lab.
Well done first year.
To make your own videos try this online video maker called Stupeflix.
Try making your own.
Click on the link below to take you to an interactive periodic table.
Try and answer these questions:
