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This is a collection of entries for the STEM competition run by the Science Museum and Toshiba. 
It was completed by year seven (1998-99) pupils at Brambletye School

The boys work

Space by Thomas Watson, Giles Keun and Guy de Montfort 

Space fuels and the shuttle by Peter Hutcheson, Kevin Yim and Chris Hammond 

Life of flight by Casper ter Kuile, Henry Tayler and Henry Luckhoo 

Flight and space records by George Bodkin, Martin Golding and Stuart Mack 

Museum visit

 1998 Entry

Early in the spring term all of the year seven pupils went up to London where we visited the Natural History Museum, Human Body exhibit in the morning. In the afternoon we 
walked around the corner to the Science Museum and the saw a Science show all about rocketry before doing our own tour of galleries which related to man's battle against gravity. The boys were divided up into groups and each group was asked to concentrate on a different gallery. Here they collected information that would help them to write a web page.

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During the preceding holiday I visited the Science museum and took the school video camera so I could film the galleries we were to visit.  Back at school  I edited a soundtrack onto the video. This gave the boys a “virtual tour” of the museum before they visited.
They were split up into 5 groups of seven or eight in each with one member of staff in charge of each group. Each boy was given a worksheet for the day and each member of staff was given an itinerary and a tour list.

The tour followed the theme of Man's Battle against Gravity
  Galleries visited 

Weighing and measuring – Reference to Mass and Newton
Science in the 18th Century – To see the orrery and the development of ideas about the solar system
Flight – Man is actually getting off the ground now 
Computing Then and Now – To acknowledge the role computers play in modern aircraft
Chemical Industry – New processes and materials that are used in air/space craft.
Petroleum – The fuel for many flying machines
The Challenge of Materials – More materials essential for space flight
Food for thought – Consideration of how the feed astronauts here.
Exploration of Space – Man finally gets out of our atmosphere.
Launch Pad – Some fun experiments to finish off our visit.

Once the boys returned to school they were taught how to construct web sites using microsoft publisher in their IT lessons. The first task they were given was to make a web page about themselves. During one science lesson a week in the first half of this term the ideas for STEM web pages were discussed, researched and developed. The boys chose their own groups of three and started work on their STEM web pages.  They used information from the their visit to the science museum, from the web and from our school library. Once their pages were complete they were converted using netscape composer to over come problems of internal addressing on our network.  The final web pages were posted on our school web site at the end of June.
The boys were given full editorial control of their own pages. They all seemed to favour flight and space as subjects although we did look at many areas in the museum.

Ian Purcell   Head of Science