Volcanoes!!!

We made predictions about what would happen when we put vinegar on top of bicarbonate of soda. Some of us got it right.  We tried it in a bottle because it has a smaller top to see how it would flow. We decided to make our own volcano out of plasticine. We chose plasticine because it is waterproof.  The volcano was put into a bowl to make sure it didn't make a mess and the bicarbonate was put in first followed by the vinegar.  We were amazed at how much the volcano erupted.  The smell was terrible but we had a lot of fun.

Senses

We tested out our senses! We used our noses and our hands to guess what we were touching and smelling.  There were lots of things to touch in the bag and it took a while to guess what they were, we weren't very good at guessing! The smelling test was fun but some of the smells weren't very nice until we found out what they were, they didn't smell like they should when we couldn't see them.

Balancing Robots

Our challenge in science club was to make a card robot balance on the tip of a finger.  We were given 2 robots to cut out, 2 1p coins and blue tack.  We needed to place the coins using the blue tack between the robots and make him balance.  It was very tricky but after a number of attempts we got there.  We managed to balance the robot on lots of different things e.g. scissors, pencil, our noses and even our hair! We took the robots home and tried it out on our mums and dads and they found it difficult too!

Magnets!!!!

We explored the power of magnets.  We were very surprised at the items that weren't magnetic.  We walked around the class and tried our magnets on almost everything. We had a competition between us to see who could pick up the most paper clips!