• Question: What was your favourite science experiment at school?

    Asked by tehmeatball to Anzy, Aoife, Dave, Matt, Tomasz on 19 Nov 2013.
    • Photo: Aoife O'Shaughnessy-Kirwan

      Aoife O'Shaughnessy-Kirwan answered on 19 Nov 2013:

      Hi tehmeatball,
      I really liked the experiments we did in Chemistry where we set different elements alight to see the different coloured flames they produced. One day however my science teacher brought in a set of sheep lungs for us to look at when we were learning about breathing, and that was pretty cool! We used a straw to blow into it’s windpipe and see the lungs inflate. Sorry if that sounds a bit gross! : )

    • Photo: Matthew Tomlinson

      Matthew Tomlinson answered on 19 Nov 2013:

      For me it was chemistry as well. I remember my teacher dropping lumps of metal, like sodium and lithium, into a tank of water to show how the reactivity of the metal was determined by its electrons. I think like a lot of students my favourite experiments were the ones that involved fire and explosions!

    • Photo: David Christensen

      David Christensen answered on 19 Nov 2013:

      Like Aoife and Matt my favourite experiments were definitely the ones with the explosions and the coloured flames. I never really enjoyed the disections in Biology though. I was a bit squeamish.

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