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Hi Colm,

I don’t think I included my other Nearpod videos, apart from speaking about the bunny rabbits. We study Mexico in 5th Class, so they have many fantastic resources.

https://nearpod.com/t/social-studies/kindergarten/take-a-trip-to-mexico-L35412797

It says kindergarten in the link, but it’s geared to 5th/6th Grade.

I liked some of the space videos too, as there’s clarity in explaining rotating and revolving.  I like how the video pauses for the kids feedback.

https://nearpod.com/library/preview/lesson-L141271610

This is a super resource,  thank you.

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Hi Lisa,

I love your idea of filling the balloons up with ice and 1) salt water, 2) sugary water and 3) tap water, what a great idea, definitely one to try out.

You make interesting points too on what information to leave out, that’s a huge challenge, I think the cube is great at limiting what we can say, so that it has to be succinct.

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Gravity Test

I chose the chair test, I’ve done it before and it never ceases to amaze, I could only move upwards by leaning forward and pushing down with my feet.

The task that I could see really working, linking with maths and allowing for student’s extension, is the puddle experiment. It’s such a simple idea, but brilliant. I really like how the circle and circumference is brought into the experiment. It would be a good way to build on an outdoor experiment of seeing how the circumference relates to the diameter. Thank you for the super video as Gaeilge, this would also be great as CLIL.

The challenges – getting every child involved and avoiding the dominant child doing all the calculations – ensure first that every one can work out what the circumference of the circle is based on the diamter. Have small groups working on their puddle.

It would be interesting to see how puddles form if you change the liquid, making it more viscose and of course to let the children to come up with their own ideas as well. it’s a super idea to do up a worksheet or cube and to pass it over to the other class. Great sharing of resources and tools.

 

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I loved the teabag activity – really easy to organise and good at many class levels. Love the tower idea for the juniors. I think I’d take it outside, to see if the wind can be measured too with an anemometer, or the children’s own home made ones. I liked Rebecca’s idea of timing them and also we could add slow motion filming.

Dry teabag estimate 20 feet actual 21 feet

Wet teabag estimate 21feet actual 26 feet

The Chair  ecperiment was good if a little tough to execute on Wizer. I couldn’t see how to erase things, so I had to commit to my initial design idea. I found the explanatory video on Wizer really helpful and it struck me that it would take a huge amount of time to design a sheet to that level for an activity.

I enjoyed the origami gripper activity and liked how it could be started with the simple lollipop stick activity and then graduated to the card idea, the children could definitely add a third development, perhaps like the boat idea, adding a magnetic aspect to the pincers and picking up paper clips.

The tinfoil boat idea was quick and easy, I’ve done it before where the children could use any materials, which had the whole “will it float or not” idea at the core, even before it was carrying anything. It has great possibilities for adding elements to make the voayage more challenging. I used grapes as the weight and these could be frozen too, too see if there was any weight or buoyancy issues added.

 

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I love the idea Rebecca of timing the teabag flying through the air, lovely idea. We could use Colm’s rhythm pattern to get the others to be involved while diffierent tests are ongoing, or just use a timer.

If a group was doing it we could film each group and then have a mini tea bag olympics. With a starting point, heats and final, using a rope and trundle wheel to measure the distance. We could play them back in class and have medals (designed by the class) for the winning team.

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Hi, I agree completely, the London Science Museum  has super resources and the pdst Stem Smaointe (I need to get downloading).  The 3Dthis.com was super too. Like you, my science lessons need to be sustained more, so I love all the ideas as you list them and as Colm proided – many thanks

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This has been so interesting and my biggest challenge is not spending too long on any of the new resources! I teach 5th Class, which is great as I know that we can work together to learn the various processes. The Tinkercad introductory video is great, so calm and super to see a 3D printer at work. I had also never heard of Bebras or Pact, these will be great as warm up activities and I like that you can build on the children’s learning and not scare anyone off! The bunny rabbit carrot one is very sweet and doable – I got answer C, 13m. I love the idea of the children creating their own “Odd One Out” and taking a photo and sending it to me, we could have a great resource made and created during earnly morning staggered arrival time. One revelatory piece of advice is that you stick with something over a number of weeks (depending on the topic). I love this – I’m inclined to have a one off great science lesson, but then it takes so much of my organisation, that it’s hard to maintain that. However by involving the children and getting them to think, predict, repsond and come up with alternatives, eg  – add a ramp in the bottle rolling – then there is loads more fun and learning to be had. Finally Solar System Scope is wonderful – that will be so good to use in the investigation of planets. Thank you Colm.

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