We have begun an investigation into “Flight” and all things that fly.
Our project is a joint project with St. Mary’s Primary School, Fivemiletown, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland. We are sharing ideas and investigations.
To begin with we did a “think, pair, share” activity and listed all the things that we could think of that can fly.
We categorised all these things under the headings “Birds, Machines, Bugs, Animals, People and Things”. There are some interesting listings!
Here are some of our investigations from 2021/2022:
- Investigating Helicopters 1st class (January 2022)
- Investigating Bubbles 1st class (January 2022)
- Paper Aeroplanes 1st class (January 2022)
- Paper Airplanes in Ms. Kyne’s class (February 2022)
- Making and Flying Kites 1st class (January 2022)
- All About Hovercrafts 1st class (January 2022)
- Zoom class with St. Mary’s Primary School, Tyrone (January 2022)
- Hot Air Balloons 1st class (January 2022)
- Pilot Kathan Dudhela’s Virtual visit (January 2022)
- Dragons, Chinese lanterns and flying teabags 1st class (January 2022)
- Investigating Parachutes 1st class (February 2022)
- Investigating Windmill Kites 1st class (February 2022)
Here are some of the investigations on flight from 2020/2021
- Investigating bubbles 2nd class (Nov 2020)
- Investigating windmill kites 2nd class (Nov 2020)
- Investigating hovercrafts 2nd class (Nov 2020)
- Paper aeroplanes 2nd class (Nov 2020)
- Investigating parachutes in Room 9 2nd class (Nov 2020)
- Investigating helicopters 2nd class (Nov 2020)
- Flying teabag 2nd class (Nov 2020)
- Cross Border Zoom Science Lesson 2nd class (November 2020) with St. Mary’s Primary School, Fivemiletown, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland
- Flight lessons with St. Ciaran’s High School, Dungannon, Northern Ireland Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3 2nd class (Mar 2021)
- The Aviatrix Project: Pilots visit all 2nd classes (April 2021)
- Let’s go fly a kite Senior Infants (Nov 2020)
- Virtual visit from Captain John Blagden (British Airways) 2nd class (March 2021)
Here is teacher sharing our project in Europe: Science on Stage Festival, Prague 2022 Our teacher bringing our project on “Flight” to other European teachers of science, Science on Stage Festival, Prague (March 2022)
