Hello everyone, my name is Michelle, I teach in a junior school and Science is one of the areas I love to teach. My favourite science fact is one a pupil added to our ‘Space Fact Wall’ when using Space as a theme last year – The Sunset on Mars appears blue!
This was a successful enquiry based activity in my classroom this year, it was Art as well as Science and Engineering. We made a class ‘Marble Run’.
First using some sets of toy Marble Runs to see how they actually worked. Then looking at videos of large wall mounted Marble Runs. After that discussing what materials would be best to use – we thought toilet/ kitchen rolls, and designing what their particular section would look like. Finally making their section of the marble run- as it was also art, these sections were highly decorative! They loved the making part and thinking about the shape / angles for their sections. I pinned all the various sections onto the wall. We had lots of testing, the marble fell off many times. Again discussion as to what would make it better/ how we could make a corner – egg cartons were decided and some plastic bottle sections. This was ongoing for about a week before we got the marble to run from the top to the bottom into a paper cup
