Mad Science Day!

As part of our science topic this term we organised a mad science day - delivered by an outside company and led by Mr Physics.  We started with a whole school assembly which was very enjoyable particularly when the children thought I was going to have water poured on my head!  We also learnt about the eye and how it works and we made a periscope to help us with 'spying' - the children's comments, not mine.

 

Kayley having a carbon dioxide bath - using dry ice and hot water.

 

Casper enveloped in his carbon dioxide bath!

 

 

Making slime - yucky!

 

 

Making chalk - concentration is vital!

 

 

Not sure what this was about as I wasn't there but it looks impressive!

 

 

A witches smoking brew and Hannah can't wait to taste it!!!

 

We learnt that science is all about us whether we realise it or not.

We learnt that science can be fun.

We learnt that Health and Safety is very important in science.

We learnt that using the correct scientific vocabulary is very important.

 

A great day for everyone.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Science Investigations

As part of our 'Materials' topic in science we have been designing our own investigation and carrying them out.  The only stipulation was that it had to include different types of paper.  We 'lolly sticked' ('sticks of doom' as the children call them!) groups and team work was stressed as being very important.  The rest was up to them!

 

We were lucky enough to be able to work outside - good job really because the majority decided to include the use of water!

 

 

Good teamwork!

 

 

Explaining our investigation!  We used all the 'proper' scientific vocabulary and in our plenary session most of our predictions were correct.