woodchurch science

here’s a link to the copper mine that was seen in the ‘rocket science’ program. the company is called nevada copper. you can download a copy of their information booklet here.

here are a few pictures showing the scale of rotary kilns for cement manufacture. they’re about 30m long and about 3m in diameter, operating temperature about 775degC.
pic 1, pic 2

making 2bn tonnes of cement globally every year pumps out 5% of the world’s CO2 emissions – more than the entire aviation industry, so any innovations which will reduce this must be welcomed. british scientists (hooray!) have developed a new type of cement that ‘eats CO2′. you can read all about it here.

here’s a clip from topgear with james may showing us the future of motoring – a hydrogen powered electric car. handy for when crude oil runs out…

here’s a link to word searches for every ks3 unit from 7a through to 9m(!) all in pdf format and ready to download.

10 year 9 pupils from woodchurch took part in this activity day at the discovery clc on 7th july 08. pupils were involved in three activities: a robot challenge, self-righting buoys and renewable energy driven cars. we came away with 2 trophies won in the robot challenge activity by lisa hill and jenny noonan. pupils were up against stiff competition from 5 other wirral schools; oldershaw, upton hall, birkenhead, south wirral and wirral grammar school for girls. well done to all who took part. team photo below.

here are a few links to some videos showing rocket launches. use in 9J1.
ocean mission launch, military satellite launch, indian rocket blast off, vietnams first space launch

here’s a link to a mass/weight simulator. check out the differences between mass and weight on earth and the moon.

link to a song about photosynthesis

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