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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Welcome back 4th Class. It’s so lovely to see everyone back after the summer! We are very excited to get back into school life and routines. We are looking forward to learning lots of new things this year. We have lots of things planned for the coming year! Lots of STEM projects, coding and team […]
Ms. Keane’s class have been learning a little bit about basic programming. They have been programming BeeBots, which are exciting little robots designed for use by young children. The Beebots are a perfect tool for teaching counting, sequencing, estimation, problem-solving, and just having fun! The children practiced using directional language such as forward, backward, left […]
Experiment Title: Inspector Detector Our experiment involved exploring the force of both magnets and magnetic fields. Before beginning our experiment we needed to get a little bit of background information on magnets, their force, and their uses. With this in mind we did a mini lesson on magnets and magnetism. We learned that in order […]
We have been so lucky in 3rd class, we have had Mr. Dunne in with us for just over a week now teaching us how to use Scratch. Scratch helps young people learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively — essential skills for life in the 21st century. Check out Ms. McCarthy’s […]