Noise, Robots and Boats

To begin the day, we enrolled in the wonderful 'School of Noise' , which was tremendous fun. We learnt what causes sound and how these waves travel (including a demonstration of an alarm clock in a vacuum to prove sound needs a medium to travel through). After some mind-blowing demonstrations, the children set off to explore the various stations that included playing music by tapping fruit and veg, creating patterns with sand and vibrations, putting on incredibly flattering headphones that tricked you where sounds were coming from and sending morse code messages!

After that, the fun was not over as we learnt what it actually means to be a robot and their three abilities that define them as such. We looked at the increasing role and function that they play in our everyday life – from support and rescue, to exploring uninhabitable landscapes and delivering our shopping. With all this in mind, the children were then tasked with designing their own robot for a specific task.

Finally, in the afternoon, the children became scientists exploring forces. Their mission was to collaborate to create then test various designs for a raft from just paper. The one that held the biggest crew of marbles before sinking won!