Science Festival Workshop

On Monday 19th May we took part in a Science Festival workshop run by 'The Edinburgh International Science Festival'.                            

Each group were given a house which they had the responsibility to insulate which would in turn save energy.   

 We took part in a quiz which allowed us to earn 'money' to buy insulation for our houses!!  We learnt that heat energy always rises and that heat moves from a hot place to a cooler place.

We learnt about Convection, Conduction and Radiation.  

After we had purchased various heat saving insulators we used a piece of equipment which measured thermal heat in each of our houses.  We found out which house had managed to insulated the most heat and who had won the challenge!!