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This spooky science trick uses a magnet and a paper clip to make paper ghosts seem to fly through the air. It’s a fantastic way to learn about magnets and gravity with a fun Halloween twist! You can either draw your own bats, ghosts and other Halloween images or use my FREE handy template! Flying … Continue reading “Flying Bats and Ghosts”
I’m excited to share a fantastic guest post from the online learning platform Brighterly today. Brighterly has hundreds of expert tutors and is great for helping kids aged 6 to 15 improve their maths and reading skills in a fun, hands-on way. For many kids, math can feel complicated and overwhelming, all numbers and zero … Continue reading “How STEM Challenges Make Math Fun and Engaging at Home”
These flying cups are a great STEM challenge for any time of year. One cup acts as an elastic band launcher, and the other is launched into the air! It’s a fun way to learn about forces, motion, elasticity and gravity! When the cup to be launched pushes down on the elastic bands, they become … Continue reading “Flying Bat Cups STEM Challenge”
A baking soda and vinegar volcano eruption or a fizzy potion are classic childhood science experiments and a great way to introduce the concept of chemical reactions. Washing-up liquid ( dish soap ) is often used to make the foam thicker and longer-lasting, but we recently discovered that egg white is a good alternative! This … Continue reading “Fizzy Foam Investigation”
Have you noticed more acorns than usual this year? It feels like everywhere we go, there are paths filled with acorns and leaves. A mast year occurs when trees and shrubs produce more seeds than usual. The collective term for fruits, nuts and seeds produced by trees is called mast, hence the term mast year. … Continue reading “What is a Mast Year”
These jelly/jello petri dish bacteria snacks are a fun Halloween party treat or just an unusual way to learn about bacteria! A petri dish is a shallow, round dish with a loose-fitting lid used to grow bacteria in a laboratory. Microbiologists use them for experiments and investigations. In a laboratory setting, a layer of agar … Continue reading “Jelly Petri Dish Bacteria”
A few years ago, I helped a local school create a space science day. We had a whole afternoon of Tim Peake and International Space Station themed activities. The idea was to take the children on a journey starting with whole class film canister rockets, followed by a docking with the ISS game, and then an … Continue reading “Activity Ideas for World Space Week”
A Harvest Moon is what we call the full moon that occurs close to the first day of autumn ( the autumn equinox ). In 2025, people will be able to see a Harvest Moon on the evening of October 6th. This moon will also be a supermoon, meaning it will be extra bright and … Continue reading “What is a Harvest Moon?”
Our fizzy pumpkin cups are a simple fizzy science activity for Halloween. We drew a pumpkin face on a plastic cup and set up a baking soda and vinegar reaction in the cup. The orange foam fizzes up to show the pumpkin face. If you can keep the fizz inside the cup, this is an … Continue reading “Fizzy Pumpkin Cups”
Have you ever wondered why you can see your breath on a cold day? It’s because of condensation. The air you breathe out is warm (close to body temperature) and very moist. When you breathe the warm air out, it immediately cools when it meets the cold air outside and reaches its dew point ( … Continue reading “Why can I see my breath on a cold day?”