First Lesson completed !!

So Monday 4th April at 13.30 we started the project. The first lesson started with a Q&A session about being a scientist. The children asked some really good questions like

1. Is detail important ?

2. How do people know you are not just making up your results?

3. How did you become a scientist?

It was great to see them so interested in working as a scientist. I told them all about my journey from a Rugby Primary School to group leader at Kings and showed them photos of me along the way.

I explained that a degree gets you a flat cap whilst a PhD gets you a floppy cap.  

The we got down to some work. We talked about magnification and focus and then I showed them how to make a slide with the pond weed leaf.

All the children managed to make a slide and take images in the microscope - and we got some great descriptions in the science book write up

Snake skin, brick wall , fish scales 

Someone actually managed to see cytoplasmic streaming which was very exciting - so next Monday (11th) we will be progressing to dye with onion skin. 

Hopefully we can repeat the success of lesson 1 .....

One of the images taken by year 5