{"id":14182,"date":"2019-09-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abingdon.prod.twkmedia.eu\/prep\/2019\/09\/20\/brainstems-science-club\/"},"modified":"2019-11-12T17:07:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T17:07:40","slug":"brainstems-science-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdon.org.uk\/prep\/brainstems-science-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Brainstems Science Club"},"content":{"rendered":"
Our Science Club for Y5 and Y6 this year has been rechristened ‘Brainstems’ as we move to a more STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) focus. This term, we have started a STEM project all about exploring ways of surviving on a desert island.<\/p>\n
The first task is to create a water wheel from the limited resources on our ‘island’ – (we had to use plastic cups to represent coconut shells). The boys have started exploring designs to make an efficient wheel that catches the water and turns the central spindle – which then can power a fan or raise and lower a weight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
20 September 2019 Our Science Club for Y5 and Y6 this year has been rechristened ‘Brainstems’ as we move to a more…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,60],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n