On Thursday, 18th March 2010, 15 children, including me, went on a trip to Braybrooke School for a science morning.
When we arrived, we were given labels which we had to write our names on, so the people from the other school could know who we were. On the labels, there were three colours; red, blue and green. It depended which order the colours were in to what order of groups you would go in, as there were four different groups.
On my label, my first colour was green, so my first group was the group with a man who called himself the “Mad Scientist”. In that group, firstly, we talked about Dinosaurs. Then, we were split into groups and were given a tray with dinosaur parts inside which we had to find with special brushes. After that, we had to choose one and draw it. Then, we made mini dinosaur teeth. We did this by putting some soil inside a cup and then pushing a replica of a dinosaur tooth into it. Then, the “Mad Scientist” poured plaster of Paris into it and left them to dry and to be collected before we went home.
In the next activity, me and my group were making dinosaurs bubble up.
To make them, first, we had to choose a piece of coloured card and draw a tail, two legs and two arms. After we had done that, we had to cut them out and stick them onto a plastic bottle. The teacher from Braybrooke School who was helping with the activity had some liquids on the table. Some of the liquids were coloured to make the liquid inside the bottle coloured. We got to choose the colour which went inside the bottle; I chose red. Then we took it outside and shook it, before laying it on the ground. Within seconds bubbly red liquid came bursting out of the bottle. The liquid kept on coming out of my bottle for a few minutes.
Next, we were making clocks out of old CD’s, by decorating them with stickers and then applying a clock working set on it.
The last activity I did was the refreshment activity, where you were allowed a drink of milk and an orange. You were also allowed to play with magnets, look at microscopes and colour in pictures.
My trip to Braybrooke School wasn’t how I expected it to be, but at the same time better than I expected, because I expected just to do science experiments when we actually made nice things, learnt interesting new things and I had a great time.
I enjoyed meeting new people although I didn’t
keep in touch with anybody yet.
By Chloe Wright