I've lost count of the number of water science experiments we've done over the years. Water is pretty amazing. Did you know it is the only natural substance to exist in three physical states at ...
Science Sparks
50 Summer Science Experiments for Kids
Summer is a brilliant time to explore science outdoors with children. You don't have to set up fancy experiments, even just looking at properties of plants and leaves or doing a bit of sinking and ...
How do lungs work? Make a model lung
The lungs are an essential organ to all mammals. Today we're going to find our how lungs work by making a lung model. The lungs are part of our breathing system which has two functions:ventilation – ...
Raising Raisins – baking soda investigation
What do you think will happen if you put a raisin in a glass of water?It will sink!Do you think it's possible to make raisins rise to the top and jump around?Find out in this simple baking ...
Why do plants need water?
A few days ago we noticed that one of our little pumpkin plants on the window sill had wilted. The soil looked dry so we watered the plant and after a few hours it was standing lovely and straight ...
Candy sorting
In the UK we have some chocolate covered sweets called Revels. Inside each bag are different flavoured chocolates, maltesers, plain chocolate, coffee flavour, orange flavour, toffee and chocolate ...
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 ...
Making a Splatter Pattern with Paint
What we were hoping to show with this cool splatter pattern investigation was that a water balloon dropped from a greater height will fall with more speed and have a bigger splatter pattern than a ...
Slipping and Sliding
On a rainy day my children can often be found skidding down our hallway. We have wooden floors, so they are slippy enough to be fun, but not so slippy it's dangerous.We have found that skidding is ...
Filtering Experiment – can you do better?
We've tried a filtering experiment using dirty water before, using kitchen roll as the filter. Today we tried something a little different.We looked in the garden for three things that might make ...
