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Our workshops take places on the Dumfries House Estate.
Early Primary Workshops
Aerospace: Skygazers and Shoot to the Moon: Dicover forces, create rockets, look at the wonders of the universe!
Green Energy: Elemental Energy & Simple Circuits: How does one form of energy change to another? How do electrical circuits work?
Late Primary Workshops
Aerospace: Small Satellites in Space: Explore forces in flight and space. What is space junk? How do we solve it?
Sustainable Design: Building Bridges: Research strength and shape in nature before building a bridge to save a village!
Green Energy: Creative Circuits and Fire Lighting & Fighting: Create a circuit to light up a greetings card. Learn how to create and control energy"
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These workshops take places on the Dumfries House Estate.
Learners taking part in the STEM programme at Dumfries House will take part in a half or full day workshop designed to support them on their journey towards STEM careers and skills.
Max capacity for all workshops across the Estate is 20 pupils.
You will be asked more about the detail of your booking at checkout.
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Our workshops all take place on the Dumfries House Estate.
All Primary
In our Weather Watchers and Working with the Weather workshops, pupils will explore how the wind direction and speed influences our weather and measure the energy available in the wind before reporting it to the Met Office. In the garden, they'll explore how the weather affects our plants and our food before thinking about ways a gardener must work with the weather to make sure all their plants are healthy.
Secondary
In the education garden, pupils will investigate how our woodlands contribute to weather function and discover creatures that depend on our native woodlands, and why. Heading out on the Dumfries House Estate, they will carry out a woodland condition assessment to find out how we care for the trees on our doorstep. At the STEM centre pupils will have the opportunity to develop their knowledge of photosynthesis and the carbon cycle by undertaking field measurements to calculate carbon storage in trees and how they play an important role in mitigating climate change.
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Early Primary
In our Countryside Clocks and Wild Bodies workshops pupils will meet the animals that live on our farm and discover the clever ways they are able to tell the time of day or even the time of year. They will also discover the big and little monsters that live here in Scotland, learning about similarities and differences between their bodies and ours.
Late Primary
Pupils will enjoy taking part in our Build a Sheep and Gene-iuses workshops. During a tour of our Education farm, young learners will spend time with our rare and native breed animals, observing, discussing and learning about the ingenious characteristics they have developed over many centuries in order to survive and thrive in Scotland. Pupils will explore inheritance and genetics, finding out how certain traits are passed from parents to offspring and how farmers manage this to breed the "perfect" livestock.