Many thanks to Mary Webb Science College who provided kits to enable the Year 5/6s to enter the Solar Buggy Challenge as part of National Science Week.
Year 5/6s had great fun designing and building their buggies
Watch a video of the race here.
….at least for the moment anyway!
Check out the leaderboards and videos from the Young Engineers website here!
Class 2 children are allowed to bring in their mobile phones with video cameras to video the flights. We’re finishing the project on Thursday afternoon.
What happens when you sellotape an egg to a rocket?
Class 2 are taking part in the Young Engineers’ ‘Eggs Factor’ competition and are researching suitable aircraft to transport an egg by air.
Class 2 have already investigated how changing the amount of water makes a difference to the distance the rocket travels.
What other factors might make a difference to how far the rocket would travel?
Class 2 had fun using this tool which gives the measurements to build a scale model of the solar system.
Simply enter how big you want your scale Sun to be and hit ‘Calculate’. Hey presto - all the measurements you need!
Class 2 have started their ‘Moon Diaries’ this week. Spare copies can be downloaded as a PDF here.
We’ll use this post to keep a list of some useful websites on this topic.
Add a post to suggest some more websites please.
Star Child - NASA site for children
What shape is the moon? - Animations and explanations
Which goes faster down a mountain - a heavy skier or a light skier? - What do you think and why??
As part of their work on forces, year 3, 4, and 5 have been building some vehicles to race down the 3m course in the hall.
View the buggies, then please make a suggestion how they could make their vehicle travel faster. Why do you think some buggies travelled faster than others? Which forces need to be increased? reduced? how might they do this?
Year 5 and 6 went to Amsterdam! Click the flag to visit their blog.
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