24 March: Bubbles

Bubbles 9Bubbles.

Small bubbles. Large bubbles. Long bubbles. Round bubbles. Red bubbles? Green bubbles? How many different sorts of bubbles did we see today? How were they different, how were they alike?

Joe blew lots of bubbles with you today. If you’d like to carry on blowing bubbles at home we’ve loads of ideas and inspiration about different things you can do with them at our bubbles page. Click here, or click the picture to the left.

Everyone got a pot of bubbles to take home to constitute science at home! Do Tweet us any photos of your experiments – @thinkphysicsne

Also – see you if you can spot yourself in Joe’s gallery of the day:

 

6th March: Floating Goats

The most scientific of the Billy Goats Gruff

The most scientific of the Billy Goats Gruff

 

We all know the story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff. But very few people know that the young Billy Goat was actually a scientist – a naval architect to be exact.

Year 1 at Bailey Green spent this morning helping the young goat design, build and test a boat that would help the goat family cross the river. I was really impressed with the young scientists and their ability to solve problems and record results!

Take a look at what we did in the gallery below…

March 4th: Volcano!

01. Mt Etna_2006_lava fountain

Joe, Sarah and Nicole have been in today investigating volcanoes with Year 3.

You’ll have dribbled honey down slopes and – let’s admit it – left some of that honey on our samples of volcanic rocks with your sticky fingers. So tomorrow, Sarah will be washing rocks in the Think Lab sink. Not to worry.

For a reminder of what you studied, and some activities to continue your exploring at home, see our Volcano Workshop page.

For anyone interested in the eruption that is happening in Chile right now, take a look at the video on the BBC website:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/31711589