Science Week in Super Senior Infants Room 5

Science Week

 Super Senior Infants - Room 5

It is Science Week this week in Scoil Mhuire. We started off the week at the Science Fair in the hall.

Super Senior Infants had a stall showing the rest of the school how to use a String Telephone.

‘How to make your String Telephone’

We used plastic cups and string. We put a hole in the bottom of the cups. We put the string into the bottom of two cups and tied a knot on the inside.

The ‘String Telephone’ was then ready to use.

We also joined up two sets of cups and had a chat between four people.

The String must be tight or the telephones will not work.

Take a look at some of the pictures of our visit to the Science Fair 

Lava Lamps

Lighting up the Light House

Static Electricity

Building Structures

Parachute

Investigating Slopes

String Telephone

We are also doing lots of experiments this week. We were learning all about sound.

Seeing Sound – We used a tub covered in cling film and an elastic band to hold it on tight. We then put some rice on top. We used biscuit tins to make sound and without touching them the rice jumped on the cling film.

Feeling sound – We held our fingers to our necks and said a rhyme. We could feel the vibrations when our voices made the sounds. Then we worked in pairs using a balloon we talked to each other through the balloons, holding the balloons to our ears. We could feel the vibrations when the other person was speaking.

We took a quiz at the end of the day and got all of the questions correct. Try it yourself and see how you get on. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/5_6/sound_hearing.shtml

Which is the Strongest Magnet? Room 14

   

We carried out an investigation to see which of four different types of magnet was strongest. Teacher asked us for ideas on how we could find out which was the strongest magnet. We had lots of different ideas. We decided to test the four magnets by seeing which would hold the most paper clips.

First, we made some predictions....

...then we started investigating. We had to make sure that the test was fair, because some of the magnets were bigger than others. We linked the paper clips together and only stuck them to each magnet at one point.

Here are our predictions and results:

We decided to make a bar chart of our results. It was really useful because it allowed us to see very clearly which magnet was the strongest.

3-2-1- BLAST OFF! Room 14's Rocket Launch

Room 14 had our own stall at the Science Fair . Our experiment was called Rocket Launch .

Have you ever noticed what happens if you let the air out of a balloon? The air goes one way and the balloon moves the other. Rockets work in much the same way . Gases coming out of the engine push the rocket forward. We made our own rockets using balloons, straws, string and sellotape.

We put a string through a drinking straw and tied the two ends of the string to stools to pull it tight.

We blew up a long balloon using a balloon pump.

We kept the air in the balloon using a clothes peg.

We used sellotape to attach the balloon to the side of a straw.

We took off the peg to let the air fly out of the balloon, pushing it forward along the string.

One- Two- Three- Blast Off !