We did a project about wave energy. We got the K’Nex kits on Monday 7th March. For the first day we were allowed to build anything. By the second day we had the choice of building either a Pelamis or an Oyster. We did individual creations at first. Vita built a Pelamis, Shauna and Louise both built Oysters. Later we all took Louise’s plan
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We built an Oyster. It is a machine that is built on the sea bed. The moving of the waves cause the top of the Oyster to move in and out, causing two pistons to move in and out. This pushes pressurised water into a small tube. The pressurised water is pumped onshore to a generator which produces electricity. We built a model of
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For our K’Nex experience we had to build a pelamis or an oyster. Our group Neasa H, Hannah B and Claire Mc V, decided to do an oyster. For the first step we had to design a plan of what we were doing. We used our plans to construct our Oyster out of K’Nex. We replaced lots of pieces to improve it. Finally we
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There are two people in our group, Claire and Meadhbh. For the K’nex challenge we built a Pelamis. A Pelamis is like a giant sea snake in the water. When the water pushes the pistons in and out the movement generates electricity. We really enjoyed building the Pelamis. We also learned a lot about wave energy. We were very pleased to see that when
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For the K’NEX challenge our group, Aoife, Emer and Sarah, decided to build an oyster. An oyster is a machine that is in the water and uses waves to produce power. As the lid of the oyster goes up and down as the motor turns the generator starts to turn which produces electricity and goes back to shore.
St. Brigid’s Day Today is St. Brigid’s Day. When Brigid was nursing an old pagan chieftain she picked up rushes from the floor and began to plait them into a cross. Brigid used the cross to explain the story of Jesus and his crucifixion to the chieftain. She told him about the love and forgiveness of God. The man repented of his lifestyle
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We did Jolly Phonics on the laptops today. We played games on Jolly Phonics. We have lots of exciting things on Jolly Phonics. We had lots of fun on Jolly Phonics. We like the laptops! We love Jolly Phonics! Here are some pictures of us hard at work. Everybody likes the laptops. We were very good!
The school has been a blanket of snow for the last few days. We made snowmen on the astroturf….. it was boys against girls! As you can see we had great fun! The boys won the challenge. They were very proud of themselves!!!
Santa came into all of our classrooms and gave us all sweets!
Electrical Circuits Last Friday we made electrical circuits. The class was split into 5 groups. Each group was given a basket with wires, batteries, bulbs, a battery holder and a bulb holder. Each group then worked out how to connect the wires and battery in order to light the bulb. We came up with lots of different versions! Some groups
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