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Didcot Girls' School Science Department
Didcot, Oxfordshire
Joined August 2014
Dfferent coloured stripes on the candy canes gave this range of colours.
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At #DGSscienceclub today we made a #chemistree by stirring candy canes in basic KMnO4, stopping the reaction at different colour points. Good work everyone. See you in 2026!
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The challenge: with a piece of corrugated card, 4 plastic lids, 2 kebab sticks, 2 lolly sticks, a paper straw, blutac, tape & a snowman template, make a carriage to move a snowman down a ramp. The fastest carriage wins a prize! See you again on 13 January for #DGSScienceClub
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You have a battery, a screw, a wire , a magnet and some pipecleaners. Can you make a spinning Christmas tree? Here's one from #DGSScienceClub
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Time for the amazing #DGSScienceClub Advent Calendar Challenge! Each base in "Santa's workshop" had a different task - the answer was a number showing which Advent door to open. Well done to everyone who did all 8 tasks and then unjumbled the letters to find the secret word!
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. @DGS_sci is very impressed with the high standard of all the entries for the @RidgewayEdu primary science competition. #DGSScienceClub members formed a judging panel today - the winners will be announced soon!
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Many hands make light work! We made a cloud of butterflies and an army of caterpillars at #DGSScienceClub today, with help from members of HUGS (our local wildlife group). They will decorate the HUGS Christmas tree in Hagbourne Church December 5-13th.
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Today we tried dyeing with natural materials at #DGSScienceClub. Here are just a few of our results, made from cotton or poly cotton dyed with beetroot or turmeric. No one expected that beetroot would dye cotton green!
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So much #DGSScienceClub fun from just a small amount of sodium alginate solution. Here are just a few of the beads and "worms" that were made today from adding coloured 2% Na alginate to calcium chloride solution.
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Our minds have all been expanded! Thanks Clara from @OxfordPhysics for sharing your excitement about physics with #DGSScienceClub and helping us to appreciate the many fundamental particles that make up our universe.
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Today we finished our light-up games at #DGSScienceClub. Here are a couple of examples made by year 7. Great work everyone!
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It's Bonfire Night, so at #DGSScienceClub we made our own "Catherine wheels" powered by a rubber band. Here's just one of them.
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We made the most of a fine afternoon at #DGSScienceClub with an autumn nature treasure hunt in the school grounds. Well done to everyone who got a complete line and special congratulations to the team who got a full house!!
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Today we finished making our automata at #DGSScienceClub - Here's a snake eating a worm by Keira and Venmika. Enjoy the half-term break everyone!
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Our Year 10 students enjoyed using the various equipment as they learnt about the science around kidneys at @VertexPharma today. What an educational morning.
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Today we started making light up quizzes with a Diwali theme at #DGSScienceClub. Next term we'll connect each question to its answer with a strip of foil, insulated from other strips by tape. Then we can make a lamp light up by touching leads to the correct spots.
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Here are just a few of last week's shrunken heads, made at #DGSScienceClub. Keep them in a dry place and they'll last for ages
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So much focus and concentration in the room today as #DGSScienceClub converted cardboard boxes, tubes and skewers into the mechanism of automata toys. Next week we'll add the model and see it move as the axle turns!
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#DGSScienceClub know a great way to use some of the apples from the trees in the school grounds - make shrunken heads! Just peel and brush with a mixture of salt and lemon juice, then leave in a warm place to dry. We can use them to keep evil spirits away at Halloween!
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Some plants contain saponins, natural soap-like compounds, and you can extract these to make a natural soap. At #DGSScienceClub today each team planned their method and then produced some soap from conkers!
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