Year 6 had a fantastic, jammed packed visit to the Science Museum today. Our topic of Inventors of the Industrial Revolution meant that the models and exhibits of all the steam powered engines were a must see. Actually getting to see a working model of James Watt’s first steam engine and having a peer inside his workshop helped bring it all to life and was essential to helping to understand the significance of these world changing machines. During the visit we also dropped in to meet Robert Stephenson, the inventor of the ‘Rocket’ steam locomotive. He told us all about his life and his inventions. He was also happy to answer many of our questions. It really brought it all to life.
After lunch we continued to explore the rest of the rest of the museum, before venturing to the ‘Wonderlab’. The Wonderlab was filled with interactive and practical experiments with loads of helpful instructors showing us how things worked. There was dry ice, lifts and pulleys, sound waves and the whole solar system. It was so much fun.
