Curriculum Impact Tag: Science

As part of British Science Week, we took part in a workshop led by Techshecan exploring, ‘Tech for Sustainable AI.’

We looked at how AI is being used to help support in a range of different ways including monitoring rainforests and coral reefs.

We were set the challenge of designing our own…

As part of our work on space for British Science Week the children have enjoyed building a rocket in the garden.  We have also watched parts of the Tim PeakeLive ~Space Lesson on BBC telling us all about how to become an astronaut and what its like in space!  

In Reception we have been investigating germs.  We used pepper in water to illustrate how germs cling to our skin and talked about how they can make us sick.  We then washed our hands with soap and were astonished at how the germs did not stay on our hands! We discussed how important it is to make…

The children were very excited to discover that over the half term holiday, flowers are starting to peep up through the soil in our garden. We have to be very careful not to trample the delicate flowers.   We can’t wait for the weather to keep improving and the exciting changed to our environment.…

Year 1- Absorbent and absorbent materials 

We have been exploring different materials to find out if they are absorbent or non-absorbent using water. We looked at the following objects- paper towel, plastic wallet, a sponge, paper, fabric and tin foil.

”a mop is absorbent”

”a book is…

The children explored applying the forces of squashing, bending, twisting and stretching to a range of materials and they recorded their results in a table.

The children in Lego and k’nex club are becoming more creative each week.  We’ve had so many different designs and the children have been working brilliantly together.  Today some of the children chose to make marble runs using the Lego baseboards.  

The children have been using natural resources, lemons and limes as part of their sensory outdoor learning today.  Smelling, mixing, whisking, pouring, creating, communicating, turn-taking - playing is learning!  

Today we investigated soluble and insoluble materials.

We worked in small groups and observed what happened when the material was added to the water.

We then discussed ways that we could speed up the process.

In this lesson we explored the hardness of materials.

In groups, we used different types of rocks and tried to scratch them using: plastic, nails, coins, split pins and our fingernail.

We discovered than chalk was the easiest of the rocks to scratch.

Following on from last week’s icy weather we decided to explore what happens to ice and how we can melt it the quickest way.  We started off by enjoying a song from ‘Frozen’ by Olaf who wanted to see what happens to snow in summer!  We then used warm water, salt and glitter to melt the ice.  We…

We looked at the hail stones and watched them melt on our hands.  ‘They turn to water!’ The children were able to say what the hail was made from and what happened when it touched our warm hands!