Science Foundation Ireland

Curious Minds Awards

Log Book 2025

Renmore, Galway 2024/2025

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Click on the link here find the planning guide with lots of links to activities from

Curious Minds Discover Primary Science and Maths

Featured on our log book:

Ms.Halliday (2nd), Ms.Cunningham (2nd), Mr.Elwood (2nd)

Ms.McLoughlin (1st), Ms.Coade (1st), Ms.O'Connor/Ms.Keenan (1st), Ms.Crotty/Ms.Joyce (1st), Ms.Molloy (1st)

Ms.Kyne (SI), Ms.O'Loughlin (SI), Ms.Moffatt (SI)

Ms.Gleeson (JI), Ms.Hynes (JI)

Special classes: Ms.Fitzgerald, Ms.Herbert, Ms.Gillen, Ms.Dunne

Also involved:

All classes attended a practical Road Safety Workshop Sept/Oct 2024

All senior infant classes made 3D model homes and had a STEM Show and Tell event with all other infant classes visiting (Sept 2024)

All classes joined 1st class in launching big water and air rockets Oct 2024

All 1st and 2nd classes and special classes had a visit from NASA Astronaut Steve Swanson Oct 2024

All classes joined in a Zoom call with Space Expert Ruth McAvinia Oct 2024

1st classes had a Space STEM Show and Tell event with all other classes visiting (Oct 2024)

(4 hands-on science investigations, with at least one from each of the four strands)

Living Things:

• Seeing a sneeze 1st class (Sept 2024)
• Our sense of smell 1st class (Sept 2024)
• A wasp in our class 1st class (Sept 2024)
• Planting spider plants and Chinese money plants 1st class (Sept 2024)
• Our sense of touch 1st class (Sept 2024)
• Looking at our fingerprints 1st class (Sept 2024)
• Our fingerprints are all different 1st class (Sept 2024)

Energy and Forces:

• Transparent, translucent or opaque 1st class (Sept 2024)

Materials:

• nnn

Environmental Awareness and Care:

• Autumn in 2nd class (Oct 2024)
• Autumn nature walk Senior infants (Oct 2024)
• Another Autumn Senior infants nature walk (Oct 2024)
• Autumn nature walk Senior infants (Oct 2024)

(and also 2 or more examples below)

Science Speakers:

• ASTRONAUT Steve Swanson NASA visit to our school (Space Week 2024)
• Space Expert Ruth McAvinia on Zoom (Space Week 2024)

Space Week Events: here

• The life of an astronaut 1st class (Oct 2024)
• Making rockets and space boxes 1st class (Oct 2024)
• Making and flying foam rockets 1st class (Oct 2024)
• Planets data chart 1st class (Oct 2024)
• Junior infants watching rockets (Oct 2024)
• Space art Junior infants (Oct 2024)
• Learning about planets 2nd class (Oct 2024)
• Posters about the planets 2nd class (Oct 2024)
• Straw rockets 1st class (Oct 2024)
• Asteroids, craters and dinosaurs 1st class, Senior infants, Junior infants (Oct 2024)
• Flying spaceships Ms. Fitzgerald's class (Oct 2024)
• Our solar system 2nd class (Oct 2024)
• Gravity and space 1st and 2nd classes (Oct 2024)
• Designing astronaut suits 1st class (Oct 2024)
• Fizzy rockets and a snowman rockets 1st classes, Junior infants, special classes (Oct 2024)
• Space week in Room 11 (Oct 2024)
• Mouse and balloon rockets 1st classes, Senior Infants, special classes (Oct 2024)
• Space Week activities 1st class (Oct 2024)
• Space Globes 1st class (Oct 2024)
• Light, shadows and the solar system 1st class (Oct 2024)
• A visit from an astronaut all classes (Oct 2024)
• Rockets and projectiles galore 1st class (Oct 2024)
• Volcanoes, stomp rockets and a sound rocket 1st class, 2nd class, Senior infants (Oct 2024)

Science Week Events:

• nnn

External Science Events/Programmes:

• Heritage in schools (Sept 2024)
• Road Safety workshops (Oct 2024)

STEP 2: Technology

(2 or more examples of the children using ICT)

(2 or more examples of the children investigating engineering in class or in the local area)

• Construction Friday 1st class (Sept 2024)
• Construction in Room 7 Senior infants (Sept 2024)
• Making our Houses Senior infants (Sept 2024)
• Lots more houses Senior infants (Sept 2024)
• Designing and testing parachutes Junior Infants (Oct 2024)
• Rocket construction 1st class (Oct 2024)
• More house building Senior infants (Oct 2024)
• Making sun dials for Space Week 1st class (Oct 2024)
• Making 3D space dioramas and rockets for display 1st class (Oct 2024)
• Rockets and space diorama construction 1st class (Oct 2024)

(2 or more examples of the children using their maths skills as part of their science work)