Wednesday 10 May 2017

Prisoners of War Trip - P7B

Another great trip today, this time to the castle to learn how and why prisoners of war made crystal radio sets. We made our own crystal radios (in groups) - they actually worked! After that we listened to some morse code and worked out what the message was.


Dressing up as a WW2 soldier who had become a Prisoner of War.



The POWs might have had to eat stale bread...


or raw potatoes...


or grass...



or even rats!

We wound fine wire around a cylinder to create a coil:












When the radio set was finished we used earphones to listen to the broadcast:







Time to decode a message in morse code (played four times slower than it would have been AND we were able to repeat each letter as often as we wanted).