Skerries – 6 Week science club (13th September to 18th October)
6 week science club at Skerries Community Centre for children aged 5 – 12 years old
Tuesdays 6pm -7pm in Room 1 of the Old School Building
Term 1: Starts 13th September and runs every Tuesday until 18th October
€80 per child
Children are supplied with lab coats & goggles. They make their own experiments! Hands on, fun STEM learning.
Topics:
Week 1: Slime Science: Non Newtonian fluids & cross linking polymers.
Punch the ooblek slime to observe changes in its viscosity! Each child makes & takes home their own stretchy polymer slime. Why do scientists care about slime?! We learn about the importance of slime for animals to grow food, act as a moisturiser & lots more.
Week 2: Blubber Gloves & Coke Mentos Explosions
Learn about Arctic animals & adaptations. Make a blubber glove to understand how animals keep insulated in cold temperatures & test it in some icy cool water! We then take a trip outside for the famous COKE & MENTOS EXPLOSION! Children learn how nucleation sites cause the mentos & coke to explode & reach heights of 20+ feet!
Week 3: Plasma Ball
Lets make a lightsabre with our Tesla coil like plasma ball. Children gain an understanding of conductors & insulators by testing materials on our plasma ball. We teach children about 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 illusions happening right before our eyes! Each child makes their own cartoon caper thaumatrope to take home.
Week 5: Marble Run
Phenomenal physics with our marble run construction. Children gain an understanding of Velocity, Speed & Momentum in this hands on activity. Can we engineer an alternative design to slow our marble run ?
Week 6: Engineering Bridges
Children design and construct a bridge. We test different shapes & structures to identify the strongest. Children also use the scientific skills of prediction, observation, teamwork communication, comparison, measurement, problem solving, and cooperative investigation by working in teams.
Enquiries to junioreinsteinsmeath@gmail.com or call us in the lab on 0857555635
