Science Club Update

Last term we investigated lots of different things.  We looked at electricity and how we can light bulbs and make a buzzer work, this was trickier than we thought!

We found out about magnetism and how difficult it was for 2 magnets to stick together.  We were surprised at how not all metal objects are magnetic.

Making our own moving vehicles was a lot of fun.  Using elastic bands as the power we raced them across the hall.  We all made different designs.

We had a go at a feely bag and used our noses to see if we could guess what was in the bag and what we could smell.  We used 2 of our senses and we weren't that bad at it!

We used our hearing senses to try and follow a sound whilst being blindfolded. We found this very hard!

Exploding Pop!!!!!!!  Mrs Davies put mint sweets into a bottle of pop and it exploded like a firework, it's a good job we did it outside because it was very messy.

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!

Senses - Is our hearing as good as a dog's? What's in the bag?

We tested our hearing to see if we could hear as well as a dog.  We wore a blindfold and used only our hearing to find the person making the noise. We enjoyed finding where the noise came from and found out that dogs can hear sounds before we can and that's why we have them as guard dogs.

 We tested our senses next by using touch. We used lots of adjectives to describe what we could feel. It was a bit scary at times because we didn't know what we might find in the bag!

Floating and Sinking

We collected an item from around the class and each of us made a guess as to whether it would float or sink. We were surprised with some of the items! Then we had a go at making our own floating vessel, it was musch trickier than we thought.