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Pumping Ions!

Mar 9, 2019

Pumping Ions!

What do you get when you cross Chemistry and a Gymnasium? Atomic structures with sports equipment! 

Miss Moorcroft's Year 9 Science students practiced building electron shells of elements with hula hoops, tennis balls, shuttlecocks and the odd netball bib. 

Working on such a macro scale gave our young scientists an immersive experience, allowing them to conceptualise atoms and their subatomic particles.