If you have some spare time, there's a range of activities that you can explore and experiment with listed below. Remember to ask your parents before you choose to take on an experiment!
Once you have finished your activity you could ask Mum or Dad to take a photo of it and post it to either SeeSaw or email it to me at sluke@hccs.sa.edu.au Have fun!
Mrs Luke
You will need
Glass/jar
water
dropper
shaving cream
food colouring
Pour water into the glass leaving about an inch from the rim.
Carefully add a layer of shaving cream to the water. Try not to make it too thick!
Add a few drops of blue food colouring to the shaving cream and wait for a little while...
Watch as the weight of the food colouring pushes though the shaving cream into the water, creating the appearance of streaks of rain falling!
Paper plane challenge – Design and make a paper plane that can fly further than 5 metres.
Investigate your design. How could you improve your design?
Talk about our senses and how they help us understand the world. Discuss how our senses keep us safe. Go on a ‘sensory walk’: choose one of the 5 senses (e.g. hearing) and concentrate on listening for all the different sounds you can hear.
Make a sensory collage – use a variety of different materials to create a collage that invites people to use all of their senses.
This website has access to free interesting science lessons and ideas. You will find a range of mini-lessons and full lessons that contain online videos as well as ideas for follow-up activities. Most of the supplies needed, you will likely already have at home. Simply choose your child’s year level and a topic or lesson they are interested in and click on the related video and explorations.
On this website, you will find great science discovery activities, facts, videos, games and resources.