Did you know you can make homemade ice cream in a bag in less than 10 minutes with just milk, salt and ice?This easy kitchen science experiment involves lots of interesting chemistry and you end ...
Scientific Enquiry
Weather Science Activities
Today's round up is full of great weather science activity ideas. Observing the weather is a great way to practice recording and displaying data as well as learning about weather and how it changes ...
Colourful Jar Experiment
This lovely, colourful jar experiment is super easy to set up and carry out but looks amazing!What you'll need:A jar or glassWarm waterOilFood ...
How to Make a Giant Catapult
We've made lots of different small catapults before, but never a big one until today. We had SO much fun with our giant catapult, and it provides lots of different investigation opportunties. Try ...
Earthquake Science Investigations
Did you know the Earth is made up of large pieces of rock called tectonic plates? Where two tectonic plates meet is called a fault. If two plates rub together at a fault waves of energy ( seismic ...
How to make a Squeezy Bottle Rocket
These easy squeezy bottle rockets are great fun to make and a brilliant introduction to forces, in particular Newton's Third Law of motion, which sounds complicated but actually makes a lot of ...
Space Science Ideas for British Science Week
Did you know the 11th - 20th March is British Science Week? There are lots of wonderful activity ideas for kids of all ages over on the British Science Week website and here at Science Sparks I am ...
Jumping Leaves
This easy Autumn themed static electricity experiment is great for kids of all ages.EquipmentBalloonPaper, cut into leaf shapes - tissue paper works best, but you can experiment with ...
How to Make a Rainbow
Did you know the light around us ( white light ) is called is actually made up of all the colours of the rainbow. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet Rainbows are seen in the sky ...
Ramps, gradients and friction
Today's activity is all about ramps, gradients and friction. We're going to investigate how the distance travelled by a car is affected by the gradient of the slope and the surface of the ...
