Blog Submission

This is a log of our evidence for the Discover Primary Science and Maths STEM Plaque. Please scroll down for a look at some of what we have been doing this year. The tabs at the top of this page - SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, MATHS and SHOW AND TELL- show in more detail what the children have been learning. We had a great year focusing on STEM and will keep up the good work into the next school year and beyond! Enjoy!

Science in Miss Maguire's Room

Senior Infants have been busy learning about Antarctica. They explored the "plants and animals" strand unit within the "Living things" strand. They labelled a penguin using it's main features- beak, flippers, webbed feet, feathers. They sequenced the life cycle of a penguin. They had great fun when they investigated how penguins keep warm even when they live in the coldest place on Earth. They used butter to act as the penguins blubber. They found out that penguins need their blubber to keep warm.

Senior Infants Science Week

The children from Senior Infants took part in lots of investigations during Science Week 2018. They explored which materials were attracted to magnets and which ones were repelled. They discovered that raisins "dance" when placed in 7up because of the carbon dioxide (bubbles). They also made their own lava lamps using a mixture of oil, water, food colouring and fizzy tablets. Take a look at the photographs to see some of the children in action.