This inertia experiment is super easy and a great fun science trick for kids and adults! Watch as the lemon falls straight into the glass below when the cardboard is pulled quickly to one side. If you want to learn more about Isaac Newton’s Laws of Motion or forces in general, I’ve got lots more…
Do you think you can stand on a paper cup or would you expect it to break? We thought our cup might break, but checked just to be sure. We were right. Easy STEM Challenge How can you stand on a paper cup without breaking it? Try spacing several cups out evenly and then place…
Earthquakes occur when parts of the Earth’s crust and upper mantle move suddenly. Large earthquakes can cause catastrophic amounts of damage so it’s very important to be able to predict when they might happen. Earthquakes are detected using a seismometer which detects vibrations in the earth. We’ve made a very simple model of a seismometer to demonstrate…
I think our garden zip line using teddies is one of my favourite activities we’ve ever done, just because it’s so adaptable to children of all ages and abilities. My 4-year-old uses it as a big imaginative game, talking to her teddies, telling them not to be scared and lining them up so everyone gets…
A shoebox catapult is a fun way to learn about elasticity, elastic energy, potential energy and kinetic energy. Children can experiment with different size and shape objects to catapult and with how far they push down the catapult arm. Shoebox catapults are a great activity for practising correct scientific procedures or as a fun engineering project. How…
What we were hoping to show with this cool splatter pattern investigation was that a water balloon dropped from a greater height falls with more speed and has a bigger splatter pattern than a water balloon of the same size dropped from a lower height. As with many science investigations, we hit a few issues…
It is wonderful to be back here at Science Sparks to share some Science bits and pieces. Normally I blog over at Red Ted Art where I love to get crafty, and Life At The Zoo, which is all about stories from our family life (and lots of cake). So it is great to have…
This week we are investigating why balls bounce and how different balls bounce differently on different surfaces. Balls bouncing seems like a simple concept, but the science behind it is quite complicated, so please bear in mind that we have simplified it for our audience. I asked the children to choose three balls of different…
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