A Few Pictures of St Fagans!

Our Final Meeting!

Our final meeting took place at mine and Beth's house. We felt that it was appropriate as we had to ensure complete silence whilst recording. We had a run through and established what each of us were saying. It took much longer than I had anticipated but the nerves and the occasional fits of giggles sometimes got the better of us. But we finally recorded what we needed to and then implemented the recordings onto the presentation. Overall, as a group we are very happy with the final outcome of the podcast and thoroughly enjoyed the process. We hope that Anne enjoys watching our podcast as much as we enjoyed making it.

Meeting Two!

Once again we met in the library for our second meeting. Over the week we had emailed one another the work that we had done so we could suggest ideas and converse information that would be beneficial to our podcast. It was obvious that we was making great progress as all three of us had completed the tasks in hand. Today's aim was to complete the actual presentation and begin the narrative script that we would later record. We divided the powerpoint into three sections so we had selected sides to work on. We then went our separate ways to complete this task over the week and rehearse the lines we had allocated one another in readiness for the recording at our next meeting.

Meeting One!

Our first meeting was at the library in University. Our aim was to set the basic foundations for our podcast whilst setting up a plan on how to tackle the task in hand. As a group we decided to present our podcast in the form of a PowerPoint presentation with voice recordings to make it more interesting. We all equally contributed to the presentation by all adding our own ideas and style of work into it. We uploaded and added our photos of our visit in which we organised them to each scientific idea that we had in mind. I felt that the first meeting was productive and a success as we were all given tasks that were equally distributed. These tasks had to be completed by the next meeting which was a week later.

Visit to Cardiff Museum.

After our visit to St Fagans we went to Cardiff Museum. Here we looked around and thoroughly enjoyed our visit, however we did not find the visit as useful as St Fagans. This is when we decided that our focus was going to be on our visit to St Fagans.

Science Podcast. St Fagans Visit.

On the 24th April myself, Beth Poulton and Chloe Arthur visited St Fagans as part of our research for our scientific podcast. Having received the guidelines for the assignment, we felt that it was important to find a topic that we were all interested in. During our visit at the outdoor museum, we all decided that the topic of food was an interesting one to pursue with. So the general theme of our assignment is the evolution of food and out of classroom activities and experiences can help aid children to develop a better understanding of the scientific concepts behind food. St Fagans is a perfect example of an out of classroom experience that caters for all learning styles which we felt was extremely beneficial. Throughout our visit we took pictures of how food has evolved from the very beginning of the history timeline implemented in St Fagans. First we visited a Corn Mill that originated from the early 18th century. Fortunately, there was a gentleman inside of the mill that gave his extremely useful and interesting facts about the mill and how it was used to produce corn which was a vital and very popular source of ingredient back then. We too many photos of inside the corn mill to enable us to provide an accurate depiction in our podcast. I particularly enjoyed the visit to the mill as it was evident that the mill was at the heart of the community and the prime resource for foods such as bread during the time it was in full use. It became clear to us that the mill and the production of corn/bread is a great opportunity for practitioners to teach the science of reversible and irreversible reactions. Inevitably making bread is a irreversible reaction and here at the corn mill is very opportune for this to be established. We then went to the Rydycar Terrace that was originally in Merthyr Tydfil. The terraced houses showed the evolution in every aspect of life. In reference to our topic, the houses showed how food was prepared and cooked changed due to evolution of technology, electricity and science itself. The houses were extremely beneficial and relevant to our topic so we made sure we had plenty of photos to capture each era. A predominant aspect of each house was the garden, as we went through the years the garden became less of an important feature of the house. But we felt that the garden could be used to teach the ideas of photosynthesis and how food is actually grown. After all there are many scientific misconceptions children hold in regards to food and how it is actually made.

Facts about Love! :)