Water is pretty amazing. Did you know it is the only natural substance to exist in three physical states at temperature naturally occuring on Earth?Water covers about 70% of the surface of the ...
Biology for Kids
Growing Microorganisms – Dirty Potatoes
Welcome to more Spectacular Summer Science, today we're growing microorganisms Following on from our hand washing exercise last week we tried another related activity. We boiled some potatoes to ...
Heart Rate Investigation
Our heart is a muscle which functions as a very powerful pump to transport blood around the body. It beats somewhere between 60 and 100 times a minute, but can beat even faster than that if needed. ...
Germs and worms
Where possible I always get my children to wash their hands before eating. The bigger two have made up a song to encourage little H to wash hers properly, it goes something like this: Rub and ...
50 Kitchen Science Experiments
Today we have 50 fantastic kitchen science experiments for you.The kitchen is a great place to explore science with children. Even something as simple as melting chocolate is demonstrating ...
Worms, worms and more worms
A few months ago I applied for some funding with Actimel so we could do a growing project in our garden. I was delighted to find out we'd been granted our wish.My idea was to try to grow enough ...
Beetle Game – Introduction to insects
Did you know beetles make up about 40% of insect species?Beetles have a very hard exoskeleton ( outer skeleton ) and hard forewings, like all insects their bodies are made up of three parts: the ...
Make your own bird feeder
Did you know that this week is National Nest Box week?Winter can be a tough time for birds. Food is in shorter supply and if an icy frost creeps over, it can harden nuts and berries and make it ...
Mint chocolate leaves – changes of state
Valentines day is coming up, so I thought we'd do some activities based around that, starting with some chocolate leaves.What you needMint leavesChocolate ( we used a lovely 70% dark kind ...
How tall is a tree?
We love trees in our house. My 5 and 4 year old children like to climb them and my 2 year old likes to collect leaves, pinecones and horse chestnuts. Last weekend we spent the morning at Alice Holt ...
