Urbleshanny national school Science Log
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2021-2022
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Step 1 - Science
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Living Things- Human Body
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Fingerprints
Lung Capacity
Reaction Time
Blind Spot/ Dominant Eye/ Pulse Investigations
Energy and Forces
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Circuits and Quizzes
Exploring Magnets- 3rd Class
Magnet Challenge 5th Class
Materials
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Junior Infants Materials Sort
Environmental Awareness and Care
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Litter Pickers- 1st/2nd
Guest Speaker (Remote)
Science Week
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Science Week- Quiz Winning Team
Science Week- 6th Class Insect Myth Busting
Science Week- Senior Infants
Science Week- 2nd/3rd
Science Week- 5th Class
Science Week- Homework Club
Step 2 - Technology
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Minecraft for Education
Learning with Virtual Reality
Video- The Power of Water
Exploring Robotics: Lego We Do 2.0
Step 3 - Engineering
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Christmas Paper Chain Challenge
Design and Make: A Raft
Engineers Week- Rang a haon
Engineers Week- Senior Infants
Step 4 - Maths
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Maths Week- Time Tables Rockstars Competition
Senior Infants Maths Investigations
3rd Class Problem Solving
6th Class Maths and Science Investigation
Bebras National Champion
Step 5 - STEM Showcase
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Winning Projects Intel Mini Scientist
6th Class projects
5th Class Projects
Reflection
2020-2021
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Step 1 - Science
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Science Week 2020
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First Class - Erupting Volcano
Second Class - Bouncing Bubbles Workshop
Fifth/Sixth Class - Universilly Challenged Quiz
Energy & Forces
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Fifth/Sixth Class - Refraction
Fifth/Sixth Class - Conduction
Fifth/Sixth Class - Refraction
Living Things
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Third Class - How Plants Drink
Fifth/Sixth Class - Testing for Starch
Fifth/Sixth Class - Phototropism
Materials
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Junior Infants - Waterproof Matierals
Junior Infants - Mixing oil and water
Junior Infants - Mixing Primary Colours
Junior Infants - Skittles Experiment
Fifth Class - Lava Lamps
Environmental Awareness and Care
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Fourth Class - Caring for the Environment
Fifth Class - Wind Turbines
Step 2 - Technology
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Third Class - Exploring Materials
Third Class - Prisms (Distance Learning)
Fifth/Sixth Class - Lego WeDo
Fifth/Sixth Class - Light Up Christmas Cards
Fifth/Sixth Class - Tourist Brochures
Step 3 - Engineering
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Junior Infants - Plastic Cup Towers
Second Class - Combilift Wind Turbine Challenge
Second/Third Class - Egg Drop Challenge
Fifth Class - Design and Make a Maze
Step 4 - Maths
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Junior Infants - Making Dough
First Class - Heart Rate
Fifth Class - Light Spinners
Fifth Class - Pinwheel Challenge
Mangahigh
Step 5 - STEM Showcase
2018-2019
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Step 1 - Science
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Living Things
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Junior/Senior Infants - Senses
Third/Fourth Class - Bats
Second Class - Living and Non Living
Environmental Awareness and Care
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Fourth Class - Water Workshop
Fifth Class - National Spring Clean
Materials
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Junior/Senior Infants - Waterproof Materials
Junior/Senior Infants - Making Bubbles
Energy and Forces
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Fourth Class - Sound
Fifth/Sixth Class - Creating White Light
Fifth/Sixth Class - Finding Blind Spot
Guest Speaker - SFI Workshop
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Third Class - Science Workshop
Science Week
Step 2 - Technology
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Ipads/Laptops
Third Class - Fís Competition
Fifth/Sixth Class - LED Christmas Cards
Step 3 - Engineering
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Host an Engineer
Second Class - Constructing Buildings
Fifth/Sixth Class - Lego WeDo
Sixth Class - Bridges
Step 4 - Maths
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Third/Fourth Class - Rockets
First Class - Making Pancakes
Mangahigh
Fifth/Sixth Class - Data
Fifth/Sixth Class - Online Grocery Shopping
Step 5 - STEM Showcase
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Fifth/Sixth Class - Lego Showcase
Intel Mini Scientist Exhibition
2017-2018
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Step 1 - Science
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Energy and Forces
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Junior/Senior Infants - Magnetic Materials
Senior Infants - Magnets
First Class - Static Electricity
Second Class - Magnetism
Second Class - Electricity (2)
Second Class - Electricity
Fourth Class - Levers
Fourth Class - Friction
Fifth Class - Circuits
Fifth Class - LED Christmas Cards
Fifth Class - Electrical Quiz Boards
Fifth Class - Magnetic Game
Environmental Awareness And Care
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Fifth Class - Burren Projects
Fifth Class - Water Scheme Visit
Fifth/Sixth Class - Cancer Researchers
Living Things
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Fifth Class - Human Organs
Fifth Class - Sugar Content
First Class - All About Me
Second Class - Making Teeth
Materials
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Second Class - Slime
First Class - Self Inflating Balloon
First Class - Making Slime
First Class - Erupting Volcano
First Class - Skittles Experiment
Third/Fourth Class - The Science of Baking
Enter a Project
Invite a Guest Speaker
Step 2 - Technology
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First Class - Beebots
Third Class - Green Screen
Third Class - Scratch
Fifth Class - Safer Internet Day
Step 3 - Engineering
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First Class - Building Bridges
First Class - Rockets
Third Class - Levers
Third Class - Magnetic Cars
Third/Fourth Class - Combilift Visit
Sixth Class - Egg Drop Challenge
Step 4 - Maths
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Second Class - 2D Shapes
Second Class - Data
Second Class - Symmetry
Third Class - Maths Eyes
Third Class - Calculating Reaction Time
Fifth Class - Tangrams
Step 5 - STEM Showcase
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Intel Mini Scientist Exhibition
2016-2017
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Step 1
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Energy and Forces
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Water Cycle- 2nd/3rd
5th- Design a bridge
Keeping things warm- 2nd
Tornado in a jar- 2nd
Bath bombs and slime- 4th
Floating and Sinking- Infants/1st
Chromatography- 5th
Mixing with water and marbling-2nd
Making Butter- Infants
Teeth/Coke- Infants/1st
Floating/Sinking- Infants
A tracing experiment- 1st
Does it Rot?- 2nd
Skittles- 1st
Self Inflating Balloon- 1st
Erupting volcano- 1st
Marbling Materials- 2nd
Materials and Change- 4th
Living Things
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Making Teeth- 2nd
Plants and Animals- 5th
Capillary action- Infants/1st
Bird Feeder- 6th
Uses of water- Infants/1st
Mushroom Spores- 5th/6th
Bats/ Echo location- 4th
Seeds and Fruit- 1st
Heart Rate investigation- 1st
Energy and Forces
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Sound- 5th/6th
Sound- 3rd/4th class
String telephone - 2nd/3rd class
Sound bingo and investigating sound- 2nd
Light- 3rd/4th class
Rainbow Spinners- 5th
Mirror writing- 2nd/3rd/4th
Dancing Raisins- 1st
Environmental Awareness and Care
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Lava Lamps- 2nd
The Power of Water
Science Week
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Science Week- Visit to Library to see the Mad Scientist
Science Week Booklets- 1st
Step 2
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Scratch-2nd
Excel Spreadsheets- 6th
Maths Week- Mangahigh
Using Laptops/ ipads
Science Log
Step 3
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Engineer's visit
The Power of Water- Engineers Week resource
Quiver
Engineering vehicles- 1st
Maths building 3D shapes- 2nd/3rd
4th class- Engineering
2nd/3rd- Makey Makey
Making Robots- 5th
Building Robots- 2nd
2nd/3rd- Design/make parachutes
Sound- Designing Ear Protectors- 5th
Step 4
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Maths Week- Mangahigh winners 2016
Maths Trail- 5th/6th class
Maths - Recording and Analysing Data- 2nd
Excel- Recording and Analysing Data- 6th
Measuring Capacity- Inf/1st
Maths- Recording and Analysing- 3rd/4th class
Step 5
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2016-2017- Presenting work to other classes
2015-2016
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Step 1
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Materials-Properties and Characteristics of Materials
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Waterproof Materials- Infants
Fifth Sixth classes
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Fifth Class-Cleaning dirty water
Fifth Class-Kitchen detectives
Fifth Class-tornadoes in a bottle
Fifth/Sixth Class- Making an explosion
Fifth Class-Exploding aliens
Third Fourth classes
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Fourth class paper strength
Third Class - Air Pressure
Third class- Salty Water
3rd 4th class making butter
Third class- salt dough
First Second classes
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Second class-oil water and explosions
Second class water cycle and the effect of freezing on water
Living Things-Myself
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Fifth/ Sixth Class
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How our Lungs Work
Lung Capacity
Height and Shoe Size
Sixth Class
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Sixth Class- Dominant Eye
Sixth Class - Fingerprints
Sixth Class - human Body Matching
Fifth Class
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Fifth Class- Respiration/Lungs
Fifth Class- Exercise and your Heart/ Circulatory system
Fourth Class
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Fourth Class- Teeth
First/Second class- My Body
Senior infants
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All about me- Taste
Fingerprints
First Class- Lemon Suds
First Class- Self inflating balloon
Senior Infants Mixing Colours
Junior Infants-Making pancakes
Living Things-Plants and animals
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Senior Infants Grassheads
Energy and Forces: Magnetism and Electricity
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Fourth Class - Circuits
3rd/4th Class - Static Electricity
3rd/4th Class- Which materials are magnetic
Third Class static electricity and circuits withconductors and insulators
3rd/4th Class - Which materials are conductors or insulators
Fifth Class magnets
3rd/4th-Circuits and Switches
First second class Electricity and magnets
Floating sinking 3rd 4th class
Environmental Awareness and Care- Science and the Environment
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5th class pneumatics and hydraulics
Science Week
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Science speaker to 3rd 4th class
Fifth/Sixth class library visit for Science week
Marvin the Magician
First Class-Science booklets
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First Class-erupting volcano
Junior Achievement
Step 2
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Scratch
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Fifth Class
Scratch Projects
Mangahigh
Using websites
Science Log
Step 3
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Design and Build
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Fourth Class- Traffic Lights
Third/Fourth Class - Making a magnetic car
Third Fourth class designed an outfit for Tom Crean
Fifth Class - Design a catapult
fifth class- Rockets
Engineers Week Quiz
Engineers Week 5th 6th
Engineers week 4th
Engineers week 3rd 4th
Engineers week 1st 2nd
Engineers week senior infants
Junior infants-Making Bridges
Step 4
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Learnstorm/Khan Academy
Mangahigh
Using Excel and Powerpoint
Third Class - Which paper is most absorbent
Third Class- Fractions
Fifth class-tangrams
Step 5
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Science Exhibition 2015-2016
2014-2015
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Link to Science Log 2014/2015
Step 1 - Science
Living Things
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Heart Dissection
Energy and Forces
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Light: Rainbow Spinners 6th
Rockets
Heat: Melting Foods: Snr Inf
Mirrors: 3rd Class
Magnetism: 3rd/4th
Materials
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Friction: Rang a 4
Senior Infants - Rice Krispie buns
Environmental Awareness and Care
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Fourth Class - Litter Pick
Fifth/Sixth Class - Marine Biology
Fifth/Sixth Class - Trip to Sliabh Beagh
Science Show with Scientific Sue
Science Week
Step 2 - Technology
ReelLifeScience: The Buzz about Bees
Virtual Reality
Step 3 - Engineering
Design and Make: Amazing Triangles
Engineers Week: Skyscrapers, bridges and staircases
Engineers Week: Plastic Cup Challenge
Engineers Week: Friction and Gravity
Engineering with Lego
Step 4 - Maths
Bebras National Champion 2022
Ireland Rocks Challenge
Junior Infants - Maths Stations
First Class - Maths Trail
Mangahigh
Maths with Spheros
Maths Eyes: Length
Step 5 - STEM Show and Tell
School Science Showcase
Intel Mini Scientist Regional Final
Melting
Senior Infants are exploring heat for Science Week. They predicted, and recorded by tally, if various foods would melt at room temperature. They used body heat to melt chocolate and then used extra heat to melt the chocolate and make a little treat!