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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.