Second class explored the history of the Titanic through play during Am Spraoi (Aistear). The children use Lego to construct the Titanic, they participated in role play in the Titanic restaurants and the classes used chromebooks to research the topic. In addition, the children carried out some science experiments to check if a variety of […]
In the senior Cedars class we have been learning about states of matter and the properties of each of the different states. We have watched videos describing the different states and their properties. You might like to watch these videos too. They were very interesting. We also discussed how different states feel, sorted objects and […]
Mrs. Dillon’s class wanted to investigate sound and where it comes from! All sounds are made through vibrations. These vibrations are carried through the air by particles until they reach our ears. These vibrations are called sound waves. We hear sounds through our ears, when the sound enters our ears they make our eardrum vibrate […]
Our experiment was called ‘On the Go’. We wanted to find out how far a toy car would travel over different types of surfaces.Before the Science Fair, we had to do a lot of research in our classroom. Firstly, we had to choose the best car for the experiment – we had lots of fun […]
We all really enjoyed our Science experiment and being able to show our results at the school Science Fair. Our project was about Forces. It was called EXPAND A BAND. We learned about different types of forces. We tested to see if elastic bands expand when weight is added to them, without the elastic band […]
The theme of our project for this year’s Science Fair was “Plants & Animals.” We decided to investigate the development or metamorphosis of a frog, but with a twist – we were going to design, build and test our very own robotic frogs using LEGO WeDo 2.0. Before we could build these, we needed to […]
In 5th class our theme for the science fair was the environment. We explored how we could use the energy of the sun (solar energy) in different ways. Before the science fair we did an experiment with our student teacher, Ms Carroll, where we placed containers of water (that were sealed with clingfilm) in direct […]
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 […]
6th class watched some clips of hybrid and electric car adverts which started off very interesting conversations about how cars of the future could run in order to reduce our carbon footprint. 6th class decided that a car moves when a force is applied to it, whether push or pull. Then, in groups, we set […]