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Investigating a corrugated Bridge. Mahoonagh N.S.

Our principal takes our 'County Colours' electric Quiz! Mahoonagh N.S. Look at our lighthouse glow. Mahoonagh N.S. One of our bubbling lava lamps. Mahoonagh N.S. Having fun dyeing with red cabbage, vinegar and soap! Mahoonagh N.S.

Loreto the Green 1st class make cubes and triangles and then put them together to make buildings! Loreto college junior school. Loreto the Green 2nd Class design and float a boat with peas as people! Loreto college junior school. Having fun in class with a visit from a science teacher. Great day experimenting. Moyle N.S. Teach Solas déanta ag buachaillí Rang 4, Gaelscoil Osraí.

Teach Solas eile, Rang 4, Gaelscoil Osraí. Seó Innealtóireachta sa Set, mar chuid de Sheachtain an Innealtóra. Gaelscoil Osraí. An suífidh Seán ar an stól sin, atá lán de tháirní?! Seó Innealtóireachta sa Set. Gaelscoil Osraí. Our two passenger in a boat experiments. St.Joseph's N.S.

Loreto Junior School Stephens Green, creepy finger experiment. Senior Infants do creeping chromatography. Loreto Junior School Stephens Green. Investigating how many coins a walled bridge can hold. Belmont N.S. Balancing the acrobatic clown. Belmont N.S.

Fear grinn ghleacaithe ag cothromú. Rang 4 i nGaelscoil Osraí i gCill Chainnigh. Bád le paisinéirí. Rang 4 i nGaelscoil Osraí i gCill Chainnigh. Ciorcad leictreach déanta ag Rang 4, Gaelscoil Osraí, Cill Chainnigh. Mixing Colours: Using acetates and colour paddles to investigate colour mixes. Scoil Chaitríona Junior, Renmore, Galway.

Working with a model of my lung. Scoil Chaitríona Junior, Renmore, Galway. Caged lions: Fooling our brains into thinking that our lions are in cages! Scoil Chaitríona Junior, Renmore, Galway. Making our own air rockets. Scoil Chaitríona Junior, Renmore, Galway. Hosting an open day on Space and Rockets. Explaining all about planets. Scoil Chaitríona Junior, Renmore, Galway.

Watching colours race. Scoil Chaitríona Junior, Renmore, Galway. Using red cabbage water to test our lunch drinks for acids. Scoil Chaitríona Junior, Renmore, Galway. Working together to see colours spin. Scoil Chaitríona Junior, Renmore, Galway. Launching the air rockets we made ourselves. Scoil Chaitríona Junior, Renmore, Galway.

Rahara N.S. pupil examining the effects of vinegar on the shell of a hard boiled egg. Bouncing eggs activity. Building a Bridge. Fermoyle N.S. Dancing Raisins. Fermoyle N.S. Acrobatic Dancers. Creggs N.S.

Design a Bridge; used different materials such as clay, cardboard, nails and rods. Phoenix Park Special School. Shark made out of wire and paper maché. Phoenix Park Special School. Tissue Box Tortoise. Phoenix Park Special School. Polaris Sky Map. Phoenix Park Special School.

Senior Classes in Douglas National School trying to balance the acrobatic clown in Douglas NS Killorglin Colour Wheel. Phoenix Park Special School. The Solar system: It was made using a hang wire, clay, card board, foil, wool and different colours of paint. Phoenix Park Special School. Rocket made from reclycled materials; plastic bottle, coloured paper and cardboard covered with foil. Phoenix Park Special School.

6th Class had great fun filtering dirty water! Scoil Mhuire Naofa, Rhode, Offaly. 2nd Class really enjoyed making the acrobatic clowns! Scoil Mhuire Naofa, Rhode, Offaly. 5th Class loved designing their own aeroplanes! Scoil Mhuire Naofa, Rhode, Offaly. Hard at work making custard bouncy balls in Douglas NS Killorglin

Static Electricity! St. Josephs's NS. Static Electricity! St. Josephs's NS. Our Wind mills! St. Josephs's NS. Using a hair dryer to investigate forces. Scoil Chaitríona Junior.

The banana was frozen when it was immersed in the liquid nitrogen! Griffith Barracks MDS. A frozen smashed banana! Griffith Barracks MDS. Surface tension. Griffith Barracks MDS. Senior Classes in Douglas National School trying to balance the acrobatic clown.

Griffith Barracks MDS. Making ice-cream - yummy! Griffith Barracks MDS. Home made lava lamp! Griffith Barracks MDS. Volcanic Eruptions! Griffith Barracks MDS.

Testing for starch. Scoil Naomh Aingeal. Testing for starch. Scoil Naomh Aingeal. Testing for starch. Scoil Naomh Aingeal. We always predict the outcome at the start of the investigation. Griffith Barracks MDS.

Investigating the elasticity of materials (and having fun)- making a catapult. 6th class Scoil. N. Fiachra, Illistrin, Letterkenny. Keeping the damp out experiment. Scoil Naomh Aingeal. Keeping the damp out experiment. Scoil Naomh Aingeal. Keeping the damp out experiment. Scoil Naomh Aingeal.

Senior Infants from Scoil N. Fiachra, Illistrin, Letterkenny enjoyed the sound insulation lesson. Enjoying a lesson on sound. Rang a cúig, Scoil. N. Fiachra, Illistrin, Letterkenny. And the plaque arrived just at the end of Science Day! Qx5 microscope

The Volcano erupted on cue! Mirrors What can you see? Mirrors

Rollers in use Science Day 2010 Science Day 2010 Does it work?

The glass on the left was empty at first Daffodils drinking coloured water Sparkling coins and keys using salt and vinegar Bubbling brew - baking soda, vinegar, food colouring and sparkles

Rahara N.S. Co. Roscommon pupils testing their lighthouse Many hands hoping to make light work at Rahara N.S., Co. Roscommon Blowing up a balloon. Kildare Place School. Using a kettle to blow up a balloon. Kildare Place School.

Aeroboard kept the water warm for longer. Kildare Place School. Angles and a periscope cut out on the Smartboard. Kildare Place School. See the Rays! Kildare Place School. Look how mirrors multiply! Kildare Place School.

Tasting salty, sour and sweet food. Scoil Chaitríona Junior. Look at how strong A4 card is. I hope we have enough marbles (we didn't!) Scoil Chaitríona Junior. A really strong piece of card! Scoil Chaitríona Junior. Different kinds of paper absorbing coloured water at different rates. Scoil Chaitríona Junior.

Tasting a sour food! Scoil Chaitríona Junior. Tasting salty, sour and sweet food. Scoil Chaitríona Junior. A clown balancing on my pencil. Scoil Chaitríona Junior. A clown balancing on my finger. Scoil Chaitríona Junior.

Clowns balancing on a bowl. Scoil Chaitríona Junior. Look, my clown can balance on a bowl. Scoil Chaitríona Junior. A clown balancing on my nose! Scoil Chaitríona Junior. What a thumb print. Scoil Chaitríona Junior.

Fingerprint on sticky tape. Scoil Chaitríona Junior. More fun! - Kildate Place School And again! - Kildate Place School Science Open Day 14th May 2009. This is luke's ice-cream van. - St.Nicholas of Myra N.S

Solar panels in action - Dromtrasna NS Swirling snakes. The Downs NS Look! Kildare Place School Steam Engine made with paint cans. Kiltealy National School

Recording our reflex times. The Downs NS Experiment. Devine Word NS Making an electric circuit. Tirellan Heights N.S. Mary Mother of Hope JNS is trying hard to be an energy efficient school. Guzzler is helping us learn about saving energy. Mary Mother of Hope Junior National School.

Invisible writing at our Science Exhibition. St. catherine's n.s. Hands on fun during science week Dromtrasna NS floating and sinking. Kilmacrennan N.S. We watched the stopping and starting flash activity and tried out some of the activities-they worked! Mary Mother of Hope Junior National School.

we had great fun testing food and materials for starch- Saint Michael's BNS. We did this experiment to show how warm air expands - Kildare Place School. Electric Car - Scoil Mhuire na Trocaire. Exploding Volcano!! We constructed a papier mache volcano. The lava was created using baking soda, red food colouring and vinegar. Kilmacrennan N.S.

'Our Wibbly Wobbly Wonder Tower!' - Scoil Mháthair Dé - Limerick. Our Lighthouse - Scoil Mháthair Dé - Limerick. Paper Helicopters - testing a large and small helicopter. Scoil Mháthair Dé - Limerick. Bubbling Wizard's Brew - the foam that pours our of the jar is formed by a simple chemical reaction between vinegar and bicarbonate of soda. The bubbles produced churn up the washing-up liquid creating lots of foam.

Fair Test - Weighing the plasticine before making a boats. Scoil Mháthair Dé - Limerick. Design and Make a Boat - Scoil Mháthair Dé - Limerick. This was an experiment we did to see which material was the best insulator. Cotton Wool was this time! Look at how the daffodil changed colour! See the difference between the one in water and the one in food colouring. Amazing!

We start it all wagging with fun science, St. Damian's NS Snakes are great, St. Damian's NS We've made our own recycling bins, St. Damian's NS Making our own crystals, St. Damian's NS

Spinning Colours, Scoil Chaitriona Junior Colour Races, Scoil Chaitriona Junior Spinning my pencil will put my prisoner behind bars, Scoil Chaitriona Junior Checking today's temperature and rainfall, Scoil Chaitriona Junior.

Learning about binocular vision, St Cronan's Colour Wheel. Kiltealy National School. Finding the Blind Spot, St Cronan's Mirror Writing, St Cronan's

Density of Water, St Cronan's k-nex. Kiltealy National School. Magnetic Car. Kiltealy National School. We discovered that when we added two similar coins the clown balanced. Rahara N.S.

Taking a close look at my fingerprints during Discover Primary Science Funtime. Rahara N.S. Marshmallow towers: We used spaghetti connectors as we could break to the right size and it is a safer material than cocktail sticks. We tested the towers with weights. The tetrahedron based tower supported 700g. Cubes with cross bracing were strong! Powerscourt N.S. We made a model lighthouse with a flashing light, by using our knowledge about simple circuits. St Michaels, B.N.S. Using science to solve crime: Getting ready for chromatography. Assumption Jnr Boys' NS

Testing for starch using Iodine. Assumption Jnr Boys' NS A seasonal tree study examining the affects of weather, daylight and tempeture on living organisms in the local environment. St Tolas NS BWe made this Space Art Display based on what we learned at the 'Space and the Hubble Space Telescope' show we saw in U.L. for Science week.This was at the entrance to our Open Day display in our school hall. Convent of Mercy N.S. Look pink crystals! Surprise,surprise! Made by the girls! Convent of Mercy N.S.

Celery drinking water - Osmosis in Plants, Kilbonane N.S. Make an orange float, Kilbonane N.S. Runaway Pepper, Kilbonane N.S. Dancing Raisins, Kilbonane N.S.

Make an egg float, Kilbonane N.S. some more of our work with photosensitive paper, St Josephs BNS Blowing up a balloon with baking soda and Vinegar, Kilbonane N.S. Electricity - Light up a bulb 2nd Class, Kilbonane N.S.

some of our work with photosensitive paper, magnetic cars and a pupil-designed slope to test car wheels in a standard manner without the variable strength of a human push; release the peg and away it goes! St Josephs BNS Floating and Sinking, 5th class, Dromtrasna N.S. Dying with red cabbage was fascinating!We made some strange pictures - I think we'll call them modern art! Coole N.S. Our work on bridges led us to design all sorts of bridges which we displayed at our science fair! St. Paul's Senior Primary School

Bouncy Custard Balls with Third Class to Sixth Class. S.N. Naomh Seosamh A perfect custard bouncy ball, St Cronan's BNS We had fun making strange sounds with balloons. The vibrations tickled our ears. Cnoc Mhuire JNS we discovered if we put the marla on the hands it balanced because the weight was below the balancing point. this made the centre of gravity lower, Griffith Barracks MDS

senior infants space - design and make - space rockets, Griffith Barracks MDS we designed and made our own bird feeders and hung them within the school grounds. Griffith Barracks MDS our fingerprints are recorded and ready for examination! Griffith Barracks MDS Getting our fingerprints, Griffith Barracks MDS

Ben gives it his best shot in our Lung Capacity experiment, Lisanfunchin NS Our winning bridge design. The criteria was make the strongest bridge with at least a 14 cm span, using no more than 5 sheets of A4 paper, Lisanfunchin NS Windmill, Kiltealy National School We designed lots of different magnetic vehicles.Here's a log lorry with logs included! Convent of Mercy N.S.

Using solar energy to spin our spinners on a motor.Convent of Mercy N.S. Sixth Class experimented with strong shapes and went on to create geodesic structures using triangles. St. Brigid's N.S. Look at all the beads in our kalidescope. Kildarer Place School Exploring sound:We made our own string instrument.We had fun making up little tunes on them. Convent of Mercy N.S.

Going to great lengths to show that opposite poles attract! Convent of Mercy N.S. Bending light using a torch, straw, semi black bottle and water. The water runs out along the straw, taking the rays of light from the torch with it. Scoil Chaitríona Junior. Sorting out bugs. Insects have 6 legs. We know which are insects and which are not. Scoil Chaitríona Junior. A rainbow spinner rotating on the spindle of an electric motor. Convent of Mercy N.S.



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Sugar Crystals forming on the string. Kildare Place School.