British Science Week 2018

To celebrate British Science Week 2018 we spent the day doing a selection of fun Science activities. Our day started investigating if what’s inside a can affects how far it rolls. Working in groups, in the new school house, we had to plan and carry out a fair test to find out the contents of unlabelled cans.

We then carried out a polar explorer planning activity where we had to plan what food to take
on an overnight field research trip in the Antarctic. We had to ensure each member of our team got 3,350 calories over the 24 hours. We only had a budget of £60!

We finished the day using Scratch to debug (fix) and improve a programme to move the Autosub6000, a type of autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), around the ocean floor, while photographing the samples found.