Filed under: Science
Howdo folks!
There are pages at the side of this blog covering the topics taught throughout the three years at Clounagh. They have revision materials and links to useful websites.
You can do online tests at Yacapaca, just click on the link below and type in the username and password you have been given by your teacher.
Are there any brainiacs out there in the ether that can solve this problem?
Play the brainteasing Frog Game
Can you answer this riddle;
What covers the Earth like a blanket, floats above the clouds and helps prevent cancer?
Famous Scientist Project:
Poppy Kemp’s Famous Scientist Project
The top 10 greatest Science experiments of all time!
The Mexican Swine Flu (Click on the picture) 
Filed under: Chemistry
- Howdy folks!
- This is a snapshot of a match burning
“A tidy laboratory means a lazy chemist“
Jöns Jacob Berzelius (Swedish chemist,1779-1848)
- The element song (powerpoint)
Famous Chemists:
Dmitri Mendeleev
Created the Periodic table of Elements
Antoine Lavoisier
The french chemist who named Oxygen, Hydrogen and discovered many elements. He was beheaded during the French Revolution
Joseph Priestly
Discovered Oxygen, but named it dephlogisticated air
Filed under: Biology
This photo (called Deadlock) was the winner of the Wildlife Photographer of the year (2008). It was taken at 3 a.m. in the Belize rain forest. The cat-eyed snake has attacked the Morelet’s tree frog, but failed to get it’s mouth around the frog, resulting in this deadlock. This photograph was taken by David Maitland.
Hello World!
“People are DNA’s way of making more DNA.”
Edward O. Wilson (1975)
Famous Scientists:
Edward Jenner
Discovered a vaccine for Smallpox
Alexander Fleming
Discovered Penicillin, which led to the widespread use of antibiotics
James Watson and Francis Crick
Discovered the structure of DNA (a double helix)
Charles Darwin
Came up with the theory of evolution by natural selection
Filed under: Physics
“Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.”
Edward Teller (Nuclear physicist)
The Eagle nebula is a cluster of young stars 7,000 light years from Earth. This image was captured by the Hubble telescope.
The Bugatti Veyron has a top speed of 250 mph, which it achieves from it’s streamlined shape.
Famous Scientists:
Isaac Newton
Wrote the laws of motion, named gravity and came up with the theory of the dispersion of white light in a prism.
Ibn al-Haytham
Proposed the theory of how we see using light
