14.5.20 Sulphur the Consequences

Good morning one and all. Yesterday's philosophising certainly taught us one thing - to always live in the moment and as all good teachers know, one should never waste a learning opportunity, especially the unplanned ones! Kipling and his unpredictable digestive system has gifted us with one such opportunity this morning. Thanks to particularly volatile conditions in his intestinal tract, he has been producing large amounts of hydrogen, nitrogen, methane and hydrogen sulfide. As you can see the children have wasted no time in setting up a way of testing how Brownian motion affects the diffusion of these gases. We have accurately measured the distance from the source of the odour to the children's noses and will be recording the time it takes for them to detect the presence of these gases. This will replace the planned physics lesson for today and this afternoon the children will be enjoying an extension activity to test their knowledge of chemistry by investigating what substance they think might be the cause of Kipling's exhaust gases.