Posted: Wednesday 23 March 2011

Science Week at Kingarth Street

P1 and P2 science Kingarth Street was a hive of activity during primary Science week, with lots of experiments and presentations by pupils.

P3M gave an introductory Science week assembly on the theme of communication and several parents came to school to tell us about their careers as surgeons, doctors and rocket scientists.

P1/P2 Science Mr MacAulay visited P1 and P2 to perform an outdoor science experiment for the pupils. His two children Grace [P1] and Michael [P2] helped set up the water experiment and the pupils enjoyed soaking the teachers on a typically dreich Glasgow day!

Dancing Raisins

Primary 2 pupils brought in a favourite experiment to show the class. We had rockets shooting into the sky, dancing raisins, lava lamps showing that oil is lighter than water, the green penny experiment where you soak kitchen paper with vinegar and place a penny on top and after a day the penny turns green. Adam told his class that the copper in the penny reacts with the oxygen in the air to form green coloured copper oxide. He may be a budding chemist!

Tags: P1, Primary, Science