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Our science experiments include removing the shell from an egg, launching bottle rockets, create edible life cycles, making lava lamps and lots more science experiments for kids of all ages.
This is a lovely activity to demonstrate convection. Younger children will love it just for the moving snake, and it’s a great way for older children to start to understand what convection means. This activity requires a source of heat, so adult supervision is essential. You will need Paper snakeCotton thread TapeScissorsColouring pencilsA heat source…
Welcome to a very eggy week on Science Sparks! Shrinking eggs is the first of 3 egg based experiments, so if you like this one, pop back later in the week to see what else we have been up to! This experiment looks at osmosis. Osmosis is the net movement of water molecules across a…
Oh boy have we felt trapped this week we did this! I had two out of my three with chicken pox and one imminent we have had to conjure up all sorts of imagination to keep us occupied, from puzzles to bricks, craft, hunting for dinosaurs and out in the garden digging for worms.
Full details coming soon, but the idea behind this activity to to design and build a trap for the wolf to save Little Red Riding Hood. Think about what materials you could use and how the trap would work. Could you trick him into standing on a catapult and fling him into a hole? Create…
Whether you love them or loathe them, spiders are hugely essential creatures. Without spiders, there would be a LOT more insects eating our crops, which would seriously affect our food supply. Spiders are invertebrates ( they have no backbone ). The biggest group of invertebrates are arthropods, including spiders. Arthropods are further subdivided into other…
Learning about science doesn’t have to be just about doing experiments. It can be as simple as looking in the garden for bugs. You could: take photos and try to identify the bugs from the photos.
This week, we are playing detective and making secret messages with DIY invisible ink. You can write messages or draw pictures to send to friends using secret ink and make them appear using a special trick! (Note: it does require heat to reveal the messages, so do supervise young children ) How to make invisible…
You might think sink or float experiments are just for small children, but you can do some great investigations with older children along the same theme. Do you know how to make a lemon sink? Or can you make an object that sinks, float? Sink or float investigation for little ones You’ll need A large…
A paper mache volcano is a great science project that is easy to make and looks fantastic! Paper mache or mod-roc are perfect for creating a sturdy volcano model for a school science fair. Remember, if you choose to set up a baking soda and vinegar eruption, it will ruin the volcano! We sometimes cover…
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