Didcot Girls' School Science Department
Didcot, Oxfordshire
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This is our final post from #DGSScienceClub on X.
Today we made and raced mini can racers with a Chinese New Year animal theme.
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Today our senior #DGSScienceClub tried out various designs for silent footwear. The shoes with the large surface area performed brilliantly on bubblewrap, but it's very hard to walk silently on crumpled newspaper!
#DGSScienceClub was packed today when over 70 students went on a moss safari. It was so interesting to watch the tiny creatures moving around beneath each microscope lens. No tardigrades today though.
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With a given set of materials, students were challenged to make a raft that can hold as much weight as possible. Of course, the raft has to carry a sailor on board. Well done to the winning rafts, holding 70g before they sunk.
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Make your own "geode"! Here are two from #DGSScienceClub today.
Coat the inside of an eggshell with plaster of Paris mixed with some alum crystals. Pour in warm saturated alum solution and leave for a week. Add dye to the solution for a coloured effect.
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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!
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.
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!!
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!