The children in Room 5 have been working with BeeBots over the last few weeks as part of their STEM activities.
See some of the activities they have worked on in the video below.
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STEPS Young Engineers project in 3rd class @EngineerIreland
Ms. Molloy’s 3rd class are taking part in the STEPS Young Engineers Awards Project this year.
They had a visit from an engineer, Mr. Dave Keeshan, this week. Mr. Keeshan is a past pupil of our school and was excited to return and see all the children’s work.
They all presented the projects they have been working on for the last few weeks. They have learned so much working as engineers! Take a look at some photos below.
Painting with Sphero Robots
The children in Room 31 recently completed some fabulous art work using Sphero robots as part of their STEM projects. They created paintings in the style of the artist Jackson Pollack using Spheros instead of brushes! They controlled the robots using the Sphero Edu app on iPads.
Take a look at the children at work in the video below!
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Virtual Minecraft Education Workshop with Microsoft Dreamspace
6th class Mr. Lysaght took part in a virtual workshop today with Microsoft Dreamspace for Science Week 2022.
They discussed and explored both non-renewable and renewable energy sources through Minecraft Education, looking at the future of energy in our world.
CodeWeek Certificate for our school @CodeWeekIRL @PDST_TechinEd
We were delighted to receive our school certificate for the coding activities the children in St. Brigid’s took part in over the last few weeks.
Code Week 2022 continues……. @CodeWeekIRL @PDST_techinEd
Some more activities for Code week 2022:
6th class Room 32 took part in a virtual workshop with the DreamSpace team at Microsoft. They explored what the Cloud is, discussed the role of the cloud in our lives and what a data centre is. Then they were lucky enough to complete activities on a brand new Minecraft Educaiton world called CloudCraft.
6th class Room 31 have been exploring and coding with Spheros and working with Minecraft to complete an Hour of Code.
Senior Infants Room 8 were continuing their Bee Bot activities.
Kicking off Code Week 2022 @PDST_TechinEd @CodeWeekIRL
Code Week 2022 got off to a great start in St. Brigids with 2nd class Room 12 coding with Scratch Jr and Senior Infants working with BeeBots for lots of different literacy and maths activities.
Space Week Virtual Workshop @MS_eduIRL
Thanks again to the Dreamspace team for another virtual workshop this week.
6th class Room 30 worked together to build launchpads, rockets and space ships with Minecraft Education. They discussed lots of interesting facts about space, the technology involved and the important resources astronauts need in space.
Live virtual workshop for World Animal Day @MS_eduIRL @worldanimalday
6th class pupils from Room 31 took part in a live, virtual workshop with Microsoft Dreamspace for World Animal Day.
They examined climate change issues and how they are affecting animals and our world, and explored and completed activities on a new Minecraft Education world called Frozen World.
They were able to experience how polar bears, penguins and lapland bumble bees live in this environment and looked at what it is like to work as a natural history researcher.
Working with Speed in 4th class
The children in 4th class Room 24 were working with speed and pulleys recently with the Lego WeDo 2.0 materials. they investigated how changing the wheels, adding weighted bricks, changing the pulleys etc. might affect the speed and movement of their racing car. They also added motion sensors to control the vehicle.