The children in year 5 enjoyed a visit from Dr Gareth Francis, a scientist with 11 years' experience for a workshop today. This hands-on space workshop involved amazing demonstrations and hands on experiments to inspire budding scientists and engineers. The workshop explored:
- Looking through telescopes
- How the solar system and why planets move in circular orbits around the sun
- How large space is and how our solar system is a part of a galaxy
- Investigating how gravity is different on each planet and demonstration of how gravity is formed
- An exploration of the 8 planets in our solar system
- The different temperatures of the planets (using dry ice to demonstrate the temperature of Mars)
- Exploring the rotation of the earth and days, months and years with globes and torches
- Deep space, stars, galaxies and black holes
The children thoroughly enjoyed this experience and were really keen and enthusiastic throughout the session.
