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DESIGN A BRIDGE

The children learned all about bridges and they even became engineers themselves as they designed and made their own bridges in pairs. During the designing and making process we looked at designs, shapes, materials and capacity of bridges. The children put in a great effort and produced some excellent designs. 

MAKING THERMOMETERS

This week the children learned about how liquids, solids and gases expand when heated. They used what they learned to make simple thermometers. 

Geography projects

The children were busy researching for their Geography project over the past couple of weeks. The title was ‘Our Locality – Drangan’ . Students got the opportunity to present their work today. Areas researched included amenities and organisations in the area as well as local history. Well done to all involved – Maith sibh! 
                              Measuring Wind Speed

Our students were busy making their anemometers and measuring the wind speed in Drangan. They created their anemometers from plastic cups, cardboard, nails and a straw.

             How much sugar is in            these everyday items?
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Pupils carefully calculated and measured the amount of sugar contained in some of the everyday items on the right. Some of the results were surprising but made us much more aware of the amount of sugar in our diet.

                                    Refraction of light 

Pupils carried out a couple of simple experiments to help illustrate the refraction or bending of light. We learned that light waves travel in straight lines through empty space, but more interesting things happen to them when they travel through other materials—like water for example. That's not unusual: we do the same thing ourselves. We find it much easier to run on the beach than in the water. The dense liquid is harder to push out of the way, so it slows you down. Exactly the same thing happens to light if you shine it into water, glass, plastic or another more dense material: it slows down. This tends to make light waves bend—something we usually call refraction.

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