Category: Summer Holiday Projects
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Summer Holiday Project #5- Create your own Mini Ecosystem
This is a great fun activity and really easy to do. We used different species of moss in ours but you could use any small plants such as sedums and alpines that don’t grow too big. Once made just pop it on a sunny windowsill and watch it change and grow. It is also a…
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Summer Holiday Project #4- Build your own Hibernaculum
What’s a hibernaculum I hear you ask…..it is a warm, dry, safe place for reptiles and amphibians to hibernate over the winter. The word ‘hibernaculum’ means “winter quarter”, with the Latin word hibernus meaning “winter”. Here in Shetland the Common Frog is our only amphibian, but they are plentiful. They hibernate over the winter in…
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Summer Holiday Project #3- Make your own BIOGAS
This week is all about science. We want you to head back to the shore to collect more seaweed so that you can make your own renewable energy source- BIOGAS. BIOGAS is made up of methane and carbon dioxide which can be used as a renewable source of fuel or turned into electricity and heat.…
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