On Tuesday 22nd February, the Year 8s enjoyed a busy and varied day at the Natural History Museum. They started out in the Volcanoes and Earthquakes gallery where they completed a series of tasks related to their latest Geography unit on Risky Places. They experienced the Kobe earthquake, practised their annotation and diagram drawing skills and wrote newspaper articles about Indonesian volcanic eruptions.
After a packed lunch and an enthusiastic visit to the museum gift shop, the Year 8s were treated to a Lego workshop. They used Lego robotics kits to build their own Mars rovers, completing a number of challenges set by our instructors and the space scientists at the museum. The culmination of the afternoon was racing the rovers on a recreated Marsian surface, using the coded sequences they had programmed using block coding. It was a fantastic coding and creative experience.
A huge thank you to Mr Arres, Ms Gunner, Ms Henvey and Mrs Brett for accompanying them.
