Step 1: Science

3rd and 4th class planted Beetroot in our school garden.
Our bird feeder keeping the birds happy all Winter.
Third and fourth class learned all about Garden Birds.
Competition between some Senior infants to see who can balance their acrobatic clown on their finger for the longest.
Senior infants investigated balance and the centre of gravity by making these Acrobatic Clowns from Cereal boxes and adding a 5c coin to each hand of the clown to make it balance on their fingers or on the rim of a glass.
2nd, 3rd and 4th class learned all about the digestive system!
Spring has Sprung here in Scoil Mhuire as Junior and Senior Infants go on a flower hunt around the school, identifying and naming some garden flowers.
Paper helicopters: First class dropping their paper helicopters from a height, and watching the blades spin as gravity pulls the helicopter down.
Moving our sunflowers from the little yoghurt pots into our flower bed in the school garden.
Investigating the factors that affect plant growth.
Sound: Can you hear me?
Planting Sunflowers!
Linking numeracy and literacy to Science. When the junior infants catch the fish with their magnetic fishing rods, they must then answer the sum or read the tricky word.
Magnetism: More Junior and Senior infants using magnets to fish for their tricky words and different Maths sums.
Magnetism: Senior Infants on Science Day exploring and using magnets to race cars around the track, and to make fish swim around the pond.
Magnetism: Junior infants exploring materials that attract and repel magnets.
Forces and heat: Which egg is raw and which egg is boiled?
How do we know without cracking them?
- A raw egg will wobble around the table slowly.
- A boiled egg will spin quickly on a hard surface.
First and Second class discovered that lemon juice, baking soda and water mixed created a chemical reaction and blew up this balloon.
First class discovered that baking soda and vinegar mixed resulted in this volcanic eruption!
Energy and forces: How many paper clips can your magnet attract and hold?
Materials: Fifth class showing us all how to make a super tall spaghetti and marshmallow tower!
Materials: More best bubbles competition with Fourth Class!
Properties and characteristics of materials: Which makes the best bubbles; washing up liquid or hand wash?
Materials: Big competition amongst the students of Moylagh NS to build the highest Spaghetti and marshmallow tower.
Properties and characteristics of materials:
Some 5th and 6th class students building houses from straw, wood and bricks.
Let's hope the Big Bad Wolf won't be able to blow them down!
Properties and characteristics of materials: Third class working in pairs to build Spaghetti and marshmallow towers. Who will make the tallest one?
Planets in order from smallest Planet Mercury to largest planet Jupiter and the Sun!
THE SOLAR SYSTEM: presentation by Junior and Senior Infants!
Environmental awareness and care: Junior and Senior Infants teaching the bigger kids all about "The Solar System". They used different size balls to reflect the size of the different planets, and shared all the interesting facts they've learned about the various planets. We were most amazed to learn that you can fit around 1.3 million Earths in the Sun.
Junior Infants, Senior Infants and First Class learned all about the Solar System!
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