Focus on Science! Hands On Science
The School self evaluation process was reintroduced in Sept 2018. As Science is the focus of our school improvement plan for 2018-2020, the school community have identified the need for more hands on, active Science that makes good use of our local amenities, habitats and environment. Have a browse below through some of the exciting adventures in Science for the pupils of Tang NS.
Autumn nature walk
The children from 1st and 2nd class explored Portlick woods in October and found lots of lovely things to excite their senses.
Sound experiments in Senior Infants
Life cycle of a ladybird
Electricity in 5th & 6th Class
The children in 5th and 6th class really enjoyed experimenting with electricity and figured out how to make simple and parallel circuits. They put their creative minds to work and used their knowledge of circuits to construct windmills, cars, helicopters and buzz games.
Building Bridges in 3rd and 4th Class
Third and Fourth Classes put their Science and Materials knowledge to the test by building bridges using only paper. Each bridge and to be at least 5cm high and 15cm wide and had to be able to support the weight of one rubber! The children worked really well together and figured out that folding the paper made it stronger and harder to bend. Their finished bridges were very good!
Properties of Materials
Senior Infants have been looking at and feeling lots of different materials this month. We learned many words to describe how some materials look and feel. Some of the words we learned used are; fuzzy, flexible, hard, spongy, transparent, waterproof, absorbent and rough. We also experimented with some materials and water. We wanted to find out if the materials were waterproof or absorbent.
Lung Models in 3rd and 4th Class
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3rd and 4th Class have been learning all about the lungs.
They made their own models of how a lung works.
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Mini beast hunt
Nature detectives in Senior Infants and 1st class
Floating and Sinking
Senior Infants and 1st class made their own paper boats. We discussed forces used to move boats. We also carried out an experiment to see how many raisins would it take to sink one of the boats. We estimated first but the number exceeded our expectations. Amazingly it took 122 raisins to sink our paper boat!
Sampling fruits in 2nd class
Healthy eating in 1st class
