Blog by Tag: Science

We had lots of fun collecting different objects we found around the school grounds. We then sorted them in lots of different ways. 

Today in Science we have been investigating how to make the perfect string telephone. 

We used different sized cups, made from different materials and then tested wool, string and thread in different lengths and thicknesses. 

In pairs, we decided which of our string telephones was the best…

This week we have been using our senses to explore. We smelled different scents with our noses. The Parmesan cheese was not very popular! 
Today we have used our sense of touch to explore , using our feet. The children gathered toys from inside and outside. Ivy told us the sand felt smooth and…

Today, we made Oobleck using cornflour and water. It was really messy but so much fun! Oobleck is a non-Newtonian fluid which is a another meaning for fluids that change viscosity (how easy they flow). When we ran our fingers slowly through the mixture it acted like a liquid, but when we applied…

We have been investigating whether a gas weighs anything. First we weighed different bottles of fizzy drinks.Then we shook them to make them go flat and release the gas in them called carbon dioxide. Our arms certainly ached doing this! We weighed them again to see if they were lighter and they…

We explored the sense of hearing by going on a listening walk. We heard lots of different noises in our local area. Our favourite was the bird singing! 

We explored the sense of hearing by going on a listening walk. We heard lots of different noises in our local area. Our favourite was the bird singing! 

We have had lots of fun separating mixtures using a variety of different sized sieves. We had to decide which sieves to use and how we were going to separate three different solids such as sand, rice and pasta. We also used magnets to help us to separate the solids, as some of the mixtures had…

We have been investigating what happens to solids when they are heated or cooled. We have heated chocolate, butter, wax, ice, jelly, bread and an egg to see whether they changed state and we recorded our results.

We have been looking at solids, liquids and gases and their properties. We had lots of fun using the Easi-scopes to look at magnified particles in ‘solids that behave like liquids’. 

We have been experimenting with different sized vehicles and tubes. We tried to predict which vehicles would fit down which tube. We tried out our predictions.