British Science Week 2024
On Tuesday19th March, we held a Science Day to celebrate British Science Week. The theme for 2024 was 'time....'.
Time is key to so many discoveries in science, technology, engineering and maths. Evolution looks at how plants and animals changed over a long period of time, the Earth’s movements show us why we have seasons and different time zones. In fact, the study of all the celestial bodies in our universe are centred around time; we talk about stars and planets being lightyears away – the distance light travels over a year.
Lifecycles are all about how organisms grow and die during their time on our planet. The average human lifespan is almost 73 years. You could investigate the lifespan of other animals, and how they spend their time.
Scientific innovations are also intertwined with time. The passing of time prompted the invention of ways to mark it, from the sundial, to the pendulum clock to digital clocks – where would be without them? Time is also vital in engineering; complicated machines have moving parts that all need work in time with each other for the machine to work smoothly. Can you think of any?
At St Ann's Heath, we celebrated by doing the following:
- Year 3 - Get Set Jellies and Active Adaptations
- Year 4 - Making Biodegradable Plastic and Active Adaptations
- Year 5 - Water Clocks and How To Accurately Measure Time
- Year 6 - Yeast and Slime
As a school, we also entered the British Science Week Poster Competition where children were asked to design a poster showing how a certain type of technology has changed over time, or even the advancement of time-telling technology itself.
