Build a Wheeled Vehicle

This week your challenge is to design and build a vehicle with wheels. Once you have built the body of the vehicle and added the wheels, think carefully about how you want the vehicle to be powered. You might want the vehicle to be powered by pushing or gravity powered. However, if you are looking for an extra challenge:

• You might like to build a wheeled vehicle powered by wind:

• You might like to build a wheeled vehicle powered by a balloon:

• You might like to build a wheeled vehicle powered by an elastic band:

• You might even like to try and build a car which is powered by a small motor or battery:

If you complete a design or build a wheeled vehicle, please send us in a picture so we can post it on your class blog and share your work in celebration assembly.

Here are the STEM competitions that you are invited to take part in this week:

STEM Bake Off:

Your challenge is to recreate anything to do with Science in a cake or biscuit form for a chance to be deemed one of our Star Bakers. You will be judged on your ingenuity, creativity and 'How easy it is to recognise the science you are trying to depict'. If you would like to enter the competition, take a photo of your baking and enter it using the following link:

Sevenoaks School Outreach Activities: Bake-Off Competition

Please also send the picture in to your class teacher so we can add it to the class blog.

STEM Photography Competition

All age groups are welcome to take part. You can submit a photo for any of the following seven categories:

Movement: hint – e.g. flight/seed dispersal/evaporating mist/effects of wind.

Zooming in (close up photography): hint – e.g. insects/crystals/materials.

Materials, elements and power: hint – e.g. water, electricity, glass, wood, metal, water.

Science in art, art in science: hint - we are looking here for beauty in natural design or how technology has helped create beauty. It could just demonstrate amazing colour in nature or a beautiful flower.

Intelligence in science: hint - anything you can capture which demonstrates intelligence such as camouflage/mimicry/problem solving. It doesn’t have to be animals and could be human ingenuity or even a plant tricking an animal!

Emotions in science: funny: hint - any STEM related photo which you think might raise a smile or touch our emotions in some way.

Medicine: hint - this could be any picture demonstrating medicine in action (not necessarily covid related) but should be taken by you and not taken from a web site. It will be judged based on how it helps people become inspired by how medicine helps the quality of people’s lives.

If you would like to enter the competition, use the following link:

Sevenoaks School Outreach Activities: Photography Compeititon entries

Please also send the picture in to your class teacher so we can add it to the class blog.

Guess the Picture:

You will see 12 rather obscure photos and your job is to identify the image. Please attempt as many as you can before you submit your answers. You can view the pictures and submit your answers here:

Sevenoaks School Outreach Activities: Guess the photo entries

There will be two £20 amazon prizes for the winners. One winner taken from local primary school children and one from secondary school students.

Daily plans for Friday 5th March 2021

Adeline. we love this beautiful close-up photo that you have entered into the photography competition. 

Daily plans for Wednesday 3rd March 2021

Daily plans for Monday 1st March 2021