Blog by Tag: Science

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.

Today in Year 3, we have been investigating what happens to a shadow when the light source moves further away.

The children worked in small groups using torches to cast shadows and rulers to measure the heights of the shadows.

We found out that when the light moves further away the shadow…

We have been using classification keys to identify living things. We completed them both in groups and individually.

We have been looking at different ways to group animals and have sorted them using Venn diagrams. We discussed lots of different ways to classify them.

Today we learnt all about the digestive system and in particular the stomach.  We learnt that sometimes the stomach needs to get rid of food that could be harmful to the body.  Trigger warning!  Do not watch the video if you are squeamish!