Urbleshanny national school Science Log
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      • 2021-2022 >
        • Step 1 - Science >
          • Living Things- Human Body >
            • Fingerprints
            • Lung Capacity
            • Reaction Time
            • Blind Spot/ Dominant Eye/ Pulse Investigations
          • Energy and Forces >
            • Circuits and Quizzes
            • Exploring Magnets- 3rd Class
            • Magnet Challenge 5th Class
          • Materials >
            • Junior Infants Materials Sort
          • Environmental Awareness and Care >
            • Litter Pickers- 1st/2nd
          • Guest Speaker (Remote)
          • Science Week >
            • 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 >
          • Minecraft for Education
          • Learning with Virtual Reality
          • Video- The Power of Water
          • Exploring Robotics: Lego We Do 2.0
        • Step 3 - Engineering >
          • Christmas Paper Chain Challenge
          • Design and Make: A Raft
          • Engineers Week- Rang a haon
          • Engineers Week- Senior Infants
        • Step 4 - Maths >
          • 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 >
          • Winning Projects Intel Mini Scientist
          • 6th Class projects
          • 5th Class Projects
          • Reflection
      • 2020-2021 >
        • Step 1 - Science >
          • Science Week 2020 >
            • First Class - Erupting Volcano
            • Second Class - Bouncing Bubbles Workshop
            • Fifth/Sixth Class - Universilly Challenged Quiz
          • Energy & Forces >
            • Fifth/Sixth Class - Refraction
            • Fifth/Sixth Class - Conduction
            • Fifth/Sixth Class - Refraction
          • Living Things >
            • Third Class - How Plants Drink
            • Fifth/Sixth Class - Testing for Starch
            • Fifth/Sixth Class - Phototropism
          • Materials >
            • 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 >
            • Fourth Class - Caring for the Environment
            • Fifth Class - Wind Turbines
        • Step 2 - Technology >
          • 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 >
          • 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 >
          • Junior Infants - Making Dough
          • First Class - Heart Rate
          • Fifth Class - Light Spinners
          • Fifth Class - Pinwheel Challenge
          • Mangahigh
        • Step 5 - STEM Showcase
      • 2018-2019 >
        • Step 1 - Science >
          • Living Things >
            • Junior/Senior Infants - Senses
            • Third/Fourth Class - Bats
            • Second Class - Living and Non Living
          • Environmental Awareness and Care >
            • Fourth Class - Water Workshop
            • Fifth Class - National Spring Clean
          • Materials >
            • Junior/Senior Infants - Waterproof Materials
            • Junior/Senior Infants - Making Bubbles
          • Energy and Forces >
            • Fourth Class - Sound
            • Fifth/Sixth Class - Creating White Light
            • Fifth/Sixth Class - Finding Blind Spot
          • Guest Speaker - SFI Workshop >
            • Third Class - Science Workshop
          • Science Week
        • Step 2 - Technology >
          • Ipads/Laptops
          • Third Class - Fís Competition
          • Fifth/Sixth Class - LED Christmas Cards
        • Step 3 - Engineering >
          • Host an Engineer
          • Second Class - Constructing Buildings
          • Fifth/Sixth Class - Lego WeDo
          • Sixth Class - Bridges
        • Step 4 - Maths >
          • Third/Fourth Class - Rockets
          • First Class - Making Pancakes
          • Mangahigh
          • Fifth/Sixth Class - Data
          • Fifth/Sixth Class - Online Grocery Shopping
        • Step 5 - STEM Showcase >
          • Fifth/Sixth Class - Lego Showcase
          • Intel Mini Scientist Exhibition
      • 2017-2018 >
        • Step 1 - Science >
          • Energy and Forces >
            • 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 >
            • Fifth Class - Burren Projects
            • Fifth Class - Water Scheme Visit
            • Fifth/Sixth Class - Cancer Researchers
          • Living Things >
            • Fifth Class - Human Organs
            • Fifth Class - Sugar Content
            • First Class - All About Me
            • Second Class - Making Teeth
          • Materials >
            • 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 >
          • First Class - Beebots
          • Third Class - Green Screen
          • Third Class - Scratch
          • Fifth Class - Safer Internet Day
        • Step 3 - Engineering >
          • 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 >
          • 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 >
          • Intel Mini Scientist Exhibition
      • 2016-2017 >
        • Step 1 >
          • Energy and Forces >
            • 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 >
            • 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 >
            • 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 >
            • Lava Lamps- 2nd
            • The Power of Water
          • Science Week >
            • Science Week- Visit to Library to see the Mad Scientist
            • Science Week Booklets- 1st
        • Step 2 >
          • Scratch-2nd
          • Excel Spreadsheets- 6th
          • Maths Week- Mangahigh
          • Using Laptops/ ipads
          • Science Log
        • Step 3 >
          • 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 >
          • 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 >
          • 2016-2017- Presenting work to other classes
      • 2015-2016 >
        • Step 1 >
          • Materials-Properties and Characteristics of Materials >
            • Waterproof Materials- Infants
            • Fifth Sixth classes >
              • 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 >
              • Fourth class paper strength
              • Third Class - Air Pressure
              • Third class- Salty Water
              • 3rd 4th class making butter
              • Third class- salt dough
            • First Second classes >
              • Second class-oil water and explosions
              • Second class water cycle and the effect of freezing on water
              • Living Things-Myself >
                • Fifth/ Sixth Class >
                  • How our Lungs Work
                  • Lung Capacity
                  • Height and Shoe Size
                • Sixth Class >
                  • Sixth Class- Dominant Eye
                  • Sixth Class - Fingerprints
                  • Sixth Class - human Body Matching
                • Fifth Class >
                  • Fifth Class- Respiration/Lungs
                  • Fifth Class- Exercise and your Heart/ Circulatory system
                • Fourth Class >
                  • Fourth Class- Teeth
                • First/Second class- My Body
                • Senior infants >
                  • 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 >
            • Senior Infants Grassheads
          • Energy and Forces: Magnetism and Electricity >
            • 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 >
            • 5th class pneumatics and hydraulics
          • Science Week >
            • Science speaker to 3rd 4th class
            • Fifth/Sixth class library visit for Science week
            • Marvin the Magician
            • First Class-Science booklets >
              • First Class-erupting volcano
            • Junior Achievement
        • Step 2 >
          • Scratch >
            • Fifth Class
            • Scratch Projects
          • Mangahigh
          • Using websites
          • Science Log
        • Step 3 >
          • Design and Build >
            • 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 >
          • Learnstorm/Khan Academy
          • Mangahigh
          • Using Excel and Powerpoint
          • Third Class - Which paper is most absorbent
          • Third Class- Fractions
          • Fifth class-tangrams
        • Step 5 >
          • Science Exhibition 2015-2016
      • 2014-2015 >
        • Link to Science Log 2014/2015
  • Step 1 - Science
    • Living Things >
      • Heart Dissection
    • Energy and Forces >
      • Light: Rainbow Spinners 6th
      • Rockets
      • Heat: Melting Foods: Snr Inf
      • Mirrors: 3rd Class
      • Magnetism: 3rd/4th
    • Materials >
      • Friction: Rang a 4
      • Senior Infants - Rice Krispie buns
    • Environmental Awareness and Care >
      • 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
​Lung Capacity Experiment
For this experiment we used a small plastic tube, a plastic bottle and a basin.
We filled the basin with a little bit of water and then we filled the bottle with water almost to the top. When we turned the plastic bottle we covered it so the water would not leak out. We put it into the basin and inserted a plastic tube into the bottle.
We asked a few people in the class to take a deep breath and breathe into the tubing for as long as possible. As they did this the air replaced the air in the bottle, forcing the water out into the basin.
This is a method used to measure lung capacity. The amount of water displaced from the bottle corresponds to a person’s lung capacity. Some people had smaller lung capacities than others . We could see than some children only displaced a small amount of water whilst others displaced nearly all the water in the bottle.
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