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: ...
Science Sparks
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 ...
Challenge and Discover – Water Science
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 ...
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 experiment was that a water balloon dropped from a greater height will fall with more speed and have a bigger splatter pattern than a water balloon of the same ...
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 ...
Viscosity Experiment – large scale viscosity race
We've done a viscosity race before, but this time I wanted to do it on a bigger scale and really get the kids involved, so we created this large scale viscosity experiment.The rate at which ...
