One of the easiest ( and tastiest ) ways to introduce science at home is in the kitchen. If you’re a regular reader, you’ve probably already seen my huge kitchen science experiment round-up post, full of simple, tasty, and educational ideas for science in the kitchen. Pancakes are a great way to learn about how…
Fresh eggs sink, and older eggs float. Eggs have air cell that becomes bigger as they age. Once the air pocket is big enough to make the egg less dense than water, the egg floats!! Another way to make an egg float is to increase the density of the water the egg is in! Once…
Eggs with no shells are definitely one of the things my children find most intriguing. I’ve made bouncy eggs for nursery children to look at and for secondary school children to use as part of an osmosis experiment. This fun bouncy egg experiment is great fun for kids of all ages and fascinating for adults…
This egg experiment shows that something we might think of as brittle and weak can actually support a heavy load under certain conditions. We’re going to investigate how strong an eggshell is by using half-shells to make a bridge. How strong is an eggshell? You’ll need How to make an eggshell bridge Method 1 Method 2…
This collection of Humpty Dumpty science experiments is perfect for Early Years Science to fit in with a Nursery Rhyme theme. Older children could use it for practising designing an experiment following correct scientific procedures. I’ve used plastic sealable bags to keep the mess contained, but children could also wrap the egg in protective materials…
This is a great Christmas science activity or for World Book Day to sit alongside reading The Gingerbread Man or Hansel and Gretel. It’s also a brilliant Christmas baking STEM challenge! Challenge your friends to make a house and test to see whose is the strongest! If you don’t fancy baking the gingerbread an easier…
What is a Mixture? A mixture is a substance in which two or more substances are mixed but not chemically joined together, meaning that a chemical reaction has not taken place. Mixtures can be easily separated and the substances in the mixture keep their original properties. Imagine mixing skittles and full size marshmallows, the individual…
Did you know you can bake ice cream without it melting? A Baked Alaska is a dessert with a sponge cake base, ice cream middle and meringue top! The secret to keeping the ice cream cold is all in the meringue! Meringue is full of air bubbles which stop the heat from the oven reaching…
When making some jelly last week, I noticed the packet said it wouldn’t set if pineapple, kiwi or papaya were added to it. We decided to find out why pineapple stops jelly setting. If you love science in the kitchen don’t forget we’ve also got 50 fun kitchen science experiments and ideas for a science…
We’ve got some easy ( and tasty ) earthquake experiments to share today! 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 waves ) come to the surface…
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