Clontarf After School Science Club – Mondays 1:30pm -2:30pm (Junior Group)

10 week after school science club at Clontarf GAA Club, Seafield Road

*Suitable for students of Belgrove Boys & Girls schools but **OPEN TO ALL STUDENTS 

Junior Class runs Mondays 1:30pm -2:30pm in the Committee Room for boys & girls from Junior Infants, Senior Infants & 1st class girls of Belgrove Junior School who finish at 1:30pm.

Term 1:   Starts 19th September & runs weekly every Monday until 21st November. €125 per child.

Children are supplied with lab coats & goggles. They make their own experiments! Hands on, fun STEM learning. Award winning science club program. Check out our awards lists on our home page!

Topics:

Week 1: Slime Science: Non Newtonian fluids & cross linking polymers.Make your own slime monsters!

Week 2: Blubber Gloves & Coke Mentos Explosions. Learn about Arctic animal adaptations & create a nucleation eruption that shoots 17ft in the sky with our geysers!!

Week 3: Plasma Ball – Lets make a lightsabre with our Tesla coil like plasma ball. Conductors & insulators, open & closed circuits with electricity glow sticks!

Week 4: Cartoon Capers- Optical illusions- how the eye tricks the brain. We use praxinoscopes, zoetropes & thaumatropes to observe some amazing illusions & make our very own cartoon capers

Week 5: Marble Run- Children gain an understanding of Velocity, Speed & Momentum – phenomenal physics!

Week 6: Engineering Bridges – lets test shapes & materials to engineer a bridge design

Week 7: Van Der Graaf Generator- Barbie gets a hair raising experience, sparks of lightning, flying Alien saucers & static electricity

Week 8: Bernoullis Flying Machines – the principles of light, aviation – lets build a flying model glider!

Week 9: Lava Lamps – density & viscosity

Week 10: Rainbow Science – Newtons colour wheel, can we turn 7 colours into one? Light diffraction glasses

Enquiries to junioreinsteinsnwdublin@gmail.com or call us in the lab on 0857555635