{"id":1424,"date":"2015-11-04T13:32:58","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T12:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chemistryinaction.com\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2015-11-04T13:32:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T12:32:58","slug":"real-science-junior-chemistry-at-work-event-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chemistryatwork.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/04\/real-science-junior-chemistry-at-work-event-2\/","title":{"rendered":"REAL SCIENCE &#8211; Junior Chemistry at Work Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again the schools filled the Milton Keynes City Discovery Centre\u00a0and brought\u00a0nearly 600 Year 6 pupils.\u00a0\u00a0The predicted excitement in the Cruck Barn as they build their &#8220;canal bridges&#8221; meant I had to purchases\u00a0some more screening to enable\u00a0the other demonstrator there to be heard comfortably! This time we had Thames Water join us and the children learned much about water management while the proven dangers of smoking were highlighted by the Milton\u00a0Keynes\u00a0Respiratory Department. Many of the popular regular demonstrations attended\u00a0and altogether we had demonstrations on:<\/p>\n<p>Earthworms,\u00a0Hair Styling Gel Formation,\u00a0Fight or Flight,\u00a0Going up in Smoke, How do the Police use Chemistry?,\u00a0Lovely Hair- Shame about the Skin,\u00a0Poisons &amp; How They Work, Living on Less Energy, Healthy Horses,\u00a0Soil &amp;\u00a0Water, Connecting up Solar Cells,\u00a0Canal Bridge Building,\u00a0Life of the Honey Bee,\u00a0Magic of Oxygen with whiz-bangs, Practical Water Purification,\u00a0We are A Lifeline (Ambulance Service).<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to seeing all the schools again next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again the schools filled the Milton Keynes City Discovery Centre\u00a0and brought\u00a0nearly 600 Year 6 pupils.\u00a0\u00a0The predicted excitement in the Cruck Barn as they build their &#8220;canal bridges&#8221; meant I had to purchases\u00a0some more screening to enable\u00a0the other demonstrator there to be heard comfortably! This time we had Thames Water join us and the children\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chemistryatwork.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/04\/real-science-junior-chemistry-at-work-event-2\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemistryatwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemistryatwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemistryatwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemistryatwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemistryatwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chemistryatwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemistryatwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemistryatwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemistryatwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}