This year for our 6th class Science Fair project, we explored forces, and gravitational pull. The question that led our investigation was ‘Does the Steepness of a Slope Effect the Distance a Toy Car Can Travel?’. We worked in groups to establish a fair test to carry out to find a plausible answer to our […]
Our whole school Science & Technology Fair took place on the 4th & 5th March 2020. Children from Junior Infants to 6th class took part in the fair. The children presented their experiments and explained their investigations to our visitors. The visitors included children, as well as parents, teachers & families. The experiments presented […]
On February 11th 2020, Ravenswell Primary School took part in Safer Internet Day. The slogan for this years Safer Internet Day was: Together for a better Interent! Every class took part in a variety of activities to allow each individual become a better digital citizen. It was all about being responsible online, taking ownership of […]
Ms. Mulcahy’s 4th Class worked hard over the past couple of months preparing for the BT Young Scientist. We, in 4th class, are extremely aware of the environmental issues in the world at the moment so our aim was to explore different energy forms. We decided to explore electricity. We looked at all different forms […]
For the past few months the children in 4th Class have been researching lots of different types of mammals. Each child was given a mammal to research. We used World Book Online to research their mammals and they decided on the most important facts. We had to identify characteristics of different mammals – nocturnal, warm […]
The past few weeks we have been working on developing our understanding of sequencing, computational thinking and the mathematical concepts of coordinates, distance, and location. We we began our Beebot stations by reviewing forwards, backwards, left and right movements by playing a blindfold game. We reviewed all of the new language which we had learnt […]
This week we learnt how to code a Beebot. We had worked hard learning how to code a human bot and writing algorithm’s and now it was our chance to write some codes for the Beebot. We discussed how the sequence of instructions was important as they help us to know what to do and […]
4th Class have began their coding journey. In order for us to become successful coders we had to learn how to use directional language properly. We discussed what directional language was and made a list of words on the board such as forwards, backwards, clockwise, anticlockwise, left and right. The aim of our lesson was […]
First Class completed their first science experiment following the steps of the Scientific Method. Scientific Method: Question Prediction Resources /Materials/ Equipment Steps / Method Results / Data Conclusion / Summary The question we wanted to explore was “What cleans old coins the best?” We had a selection of liquids to experiment with: water, washing up […]
To begin our STEM journey this year, we started as engineers. We began our journey by working in groups to create a marshmallow tower. Before we began, we used this concept cartoon to stimulate some conversation. We all took a look at the picture and made predictions on what we thought this cartoon was all […]