Roving Scientist STEM Clubs

Science for Life's, Megan Begley, is now delivering STEM Clubs in a number of Islington schools in her capacity as roving scientist. Key Stage 2 pupils at Grafton and St Luke's Church of England schools have been enjoying undertaking activities related to Science (Physics, Biology, Chemistry), Technology, Engineering and Maths in their lunch break once a week. Each week, they have taken home information about a person's science-related career that links to the activity they did. These have included an electrical engineer, a forensic scientist/scene of crime officer, a civil engineer, a space mathematician, a lepidopterist and a computer scientist. 

Watch this space to see what they do next. 

Here is what some Year 4 pupils at Grafton had to say about working with conductive dough:

'I loved working out that you could make the light bulb flash by tapping the wire up and down. Edison showed me how to do that.'

'I liked lighting it up - if it didn't light up, you knew that you were doing it the wrong way, or that maybe the bulb had stopped working, but you had to work it out.'

'I like that it was creative, that you could make different ones (models).'

'I liked seeing different people from other year groups. I worked with my friend this time but I think next time I might work with someone else.'