Make Your Own Fossil Kit!

Science2Life’s Science iT! Activities take everyday life objects, toys and knick-knacks and turns them into fun, innovative science projects.

In this activity Scientific Sue uses the quick drying action of casting stone to help create 3D copies of your dinosaurs of choice.

Turn your children into little archaeologists with our DINO DIG Kit.

A complete learning activity – this mega dig kit includes everything you need to create and uncover your very own fossils!

Ideal gift for any dinosaur fan!

This kit contains:

• Dinosaur puzzle
• 2 Dinosaur toys
• Casting foam
• Wooden Tools
• Toothbrush
• 3 x 32 g casting stone (enough to make 3 models)
• Measuring cup
• Dinosaur box – to be coloured in

Build your dinosaur skeleton puzzle: bury it, cast it, then dig it!

Building this 3D puzzle stimulates logical thinking and special imagination.

1. Build your Dinosaur puzzle.
2. Gently push it into the foam mould using the wooden stick – this ensures no finger marks are made.
3. Carefully remove your dinosaur skeleton.
4. Carefully measure 10 ml of water and add it to 32 g (or 30 ml) of dental stone powder.
5. Mix until you have a smooth paste (a bit like a thick batter) – 30 seconds max.
6. Pour the paste into the mold – use the lollipop stick to smooth the surface.
7. Leave for 60 minutes.
8. Place your mould on a tray.
9. Carefully remove the outer layer of the foam with your fingers.
10. As you get closer to the skeleton you will then need to use the wooden stick.
11. The toothbrush is then used to brush away the foam that is found within the rib cage and other crevasses.
12. When completely dry paint your fossil!

Casting stone can be used to collect many kinds of impressions. Forensic scientists use it a lot to gather impressions of shoe prints and type tracks.

Casting stone emits a little bit of heat while it hardens – so we can’t use it for impressions made in snow!

Science2Life’s Science iT! activities and programmes

Children love to be engaged in learning, especially through interactive projects that they can really get involved and be hands on with.

Science2Life’s Science iT! activities and programmes are part of our STEAM Academy. The activities use everyday life objects, toys and knick-knacks and turns them into fun, innovative, hands-on experiences designed to encourage children to:

• discover the amazing world of science and engineering
• to perform engaging activities that show how science and engineering is at work in their everyday lives
• to foster a lifelong love of science and engineering
• to give a basic grounding in scientific concepts and scientific thinking
• to increase children’s motivation to learn and
• enhance their perception, creativity and logic.

Hands-on learning is learning by doing.

Children involved in our ‘Science iT!’ activities and programmes are introduced to various STEAM learning methods and activities. Our creative programmes involve learning activities that require active thinking and experimenting to find out how things work. We all know how curious children are about the world around them and how they love using the word ‘why?’

The aim of our activities is to provide optimal learning opportunities that strategically help children grasp mathematics, engineering and science concepts.

With the inclusion of the arts component into STEM it makes it more fun to learn, and more approachable to children.

Art education allows children to learn things in a more open-ended way and make them applicable to real life.

Links to the curriculum

All of Science2Life activities can be used to entertain children – however they have been created with the curriculum in mind, so are perfect activities to generate mesmerizing examples of the topics they can be used to explore.

Plus our Science iT! activities can up scaled-up to be used in workshops within the classroom, for festival and birthday celebrations, which provide opportunities for children to collaborate on initiatives, explorations and creations.

The idea behind our Science iT! activities is to ignite children’s natural innate curiosity about the world around them (and the items in it) and to channel their enthusiasm for scientific discovery as early as possible.

Currently Science2Life have the following Science iT! activities:

1. The Magical EVANESCO Spell
2. The Magical AMORTENTIA Spell
3. The Super Bouncing Bubble Kit
4. Make your own Fossil Kit
5. Colour Changing Bracelet Kit
6. Pneumatic Monsters Activity
7. Creative Circuits
8. The Magical Wandarama
9. Gone Fishing
10. The Jitter Bug

Each of the above activities can be turned into a workshop programme! Interested? Give us a call!

Scientificsue@science2life.com

+447970884728

Note: All of Science2Life’s STEAM ACADEMY shows and workshops are designed to not only motivate and fire the spirit of discovery within your children but also ignite curiosity in their minds.

For more information on our shows visit our website: https://www.science2life.com

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Dinosaur Plant – Click here for for plant care information

Water me to wake me up!

Dinosaurs have been extinct for 65 million years, but an ancient plant, that witnessed the era of these mighty reptiles, is still around!

A Prehistoric evergreen that keeps coming back to life!

This amazing Water Plant Kit by DuneCraft allows your children to grow their own living Earth history, a plant that has survived for over 290 million years.

When you open the Dinosaur Plant Amazing Water Plant Kit

After 10 minutes in water

package, the enclosed foliage ball looks completely lifeless. Put it in water and give it a few hours. You will be really surprised to find it fully transformed into a beautiful alive evergreen plant!

Grows in one day!

Want to make presentation of this natural wonder for your family or friends? Let the dino plant from this children’s science kit dry out for a week and then add water again!

This really amazing botanical kit from Educational Toys Planet is a must have to introduce your children to natural history, paleontology and biology. All DuneCraft plant kits are 100% guaranteed to grow.

• Dinosaur Plant kit allows your children to grow their own living Earth history, really unique exotic plant.
• Develops skills: biology, observation skills, experimenting skills.
• Award Winner: Creative Child Magazine – Seal of Excellence, Dr. Toys’ Best Classic Toy Award.
• Includes; 1 Dinosaur plant, 1 display bowl, I packet of New Mexico lava rocks.

The Story of the Dinosaur Plant

The dinosaur plant is one of the longest living plants in the world! It’s ancestors looked down to see the first dinosaur emerge. At that time this plant grew to over 35 metres in height – even taller than Tyrannosaurus Rex!

When the Ice-age came this plant had to mutate and get really small. It learned how to blow onto dry land and sleep, waiting for water. It would drift around waiting until it stumbled on water and then drinks greedily and goes back to sleep until it finds its next source of water! This plant is very easy to care for. It doesn’t need to bury its roots. All it needs is a little water and some occasional sleep.

Place the plant in the bowl with the enclosed New Mexican lava rock. Pour on some water and watch it spring in to life within one day! Let the plant dry out and it will shrink back to its sleeping state. It can sleep up to 50 years and will still rise when it is placed in water again.

Once it has been brought back to life, change the water every day and give it a rinse for the first few weeks. It will grow in the bowl of water indefinitely, although it does prefer to have a few naps each year. To put it to bed, just let the water evaporate. Don’t refill it. It will fall asleep in one week. You can then re awaken it when you are ready to care for it again.

Facts about your Dinosaur Plant

• Fronds turn red-brown or grey-green with age and are produced in dense tufts
• Grows to about 10 cm
• Has hygroscopic qualities which cause the pant to curl up when dry and unfold when moist
• Retains 3% of its water when it is dehydrated
• Although shallow, their root system is very extensive and the leaves and stems can uptake water directly
• Although they resemble mosses, they are considered to be more evolutionary advanced because they are vascular – they have specialised fluid-conducting tissues
• They were a dominant group during the Carboniferous period when they attained the size of trees and contributed to the coal deposits which were later formed
• Is an ideal symbol for the coming of life.

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