CLYDEBANK’S future brilliant minds got some inspiration from British Science Week earlier last month.
Linnvale Primary hosted a team from Science Boffins who showed the whole school experiments and class workshops – and even a rocket launch in front of the school.
Then they learned about a poorly elephant with a toothache and how three small quantities of chemicals could make a huge amount of toothpaste.
Class teacher Mairi Fraser explained: “With the amount of noise the pupils made, it was time to test how big their lungs were with our windbags. Using Bernoulli’s air flow principles we can make a pupil fill a bag up with more than 10 litres of air in one breath.”
“Finally, we set fire to Mrs Cairney’s £20 note and demonstrated flash paper.”
A workshop also brought together visual effects from the film industry with Frankenstein-like plasma flashes, electricity passing through their bodies to light a fluorescent tube and miniature lightning strikes. And no adventurous day is complete without slime fun – all the better to help young learners stick to science into the future.
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