This week Newfield has taken part in British Science Week. The theme for this year was “Curiosity: what’s your question?” All scientific discoveries and advancements have come from a spark of curiosity. No experiment was conducted without a someone behind it being inquisitive, wanting to know the answer.
But curiosity isn’t just about conventional science, it’s part of our everyday lives, it’s how we understand and interact with our environment. It can help us make the world a better place.
As part of this our pupils have become scientists for the week, taking part in an experiment to help spark their own curiosity in Science, encouraging what, why and how questions.
Explorers have tried to pop unpoppable bubbles, Lower Key Stage 2 have been creating foaming unicorn rainbows, Upper Key Stage 2 have been exploring bubbly alien worlds, Key Stage 3 have been making their own lava lamps, Key Stage 4 have built hovercrafts and TG classes have been trying to pop unpoppable bags.
Class 4 had Foaming Unicorn Rainbow Bubbles. The children were fully engaged, exploring and showing lots of anticipating, engagement and excitement. We made lots of different coloured bubbles.
C9 enjoyed their class experiment of “bubbling alien world”. The children showed some great anticipation reactions while conducting the experiment.
S4 enjoyed making Lava Lamps, watching the bottles glow under the black light and adding more salt to watch the oil rise to the top of the bottle.
S2 also enjoyed engaged really well with the Lava Lamps experiment, I don’t think they’ve had the opportunity to see the effects of UV with a blacklight before and they loved it!
Classes have been asked to share experiments that are linked to their top this term with prizes for the experiment that makes us the most Curious.
If you are interested in exploring Science at home Emily’s Wonder Lab on Youtube have some family friendly and accessible science experiments you can do at home to spark your child’s curiosity.
