Includes:

• 1 x bright red test tube holder with 6 holes
  

  28 piece primary science kit

• 4 x 16 mm diameter test tubes with caps
• 2 x 10 mm diameter test tubes with caps
• 1 x 10 ml measuring cylinder
• 1 x 25 ml measuring cylinder
• 10 x 3 ml pipettes
• 2 x 60 ml measuring cup
• 1 x 12 cc syringe
• 1 x flower or frog magnifying lens
• 2 x small funnel
• 1 x soft edge safety glasses (0ne size fits all)
• Measuring Spoons
• pH Indicator Test Strips

Items you may wish to add to this kit:

• timers
  

  Flower Shaped Magnifying glass

• measuring jugs
• measuring scales
• baby’s bottles make excellent measuring cylinders for larger volumes
• cups and bowls
• measuring spoons and cups
• Stirrers

Suggested chemicals:

• Vinegar (acid)
• Baking Soda (Base)
• Red cabbage
• Colour changing bubble bath
• Washing up liquid
• Food colouring
• Baby or cooking oil
• Water
• Milk
• fizzing tablets
• Citric acid
• Sugar
• Salt

Your young scientists will love to use this set to experiment and mix different items together.

They will love mixing baking soda, vinegar, water, citric acid, food colourings, oil, milk and other powders together.

Whether their activity is guided by you or them they will be developing the following skills:

• Problem solving
• Fine motor skills
• Mathematical concepts
• Making predictions

Any science experiment benefits tactile and visual learners.

How do different liquids flow?

How do different chemicals react together?

Which chemicals when mixed give you a fizz? Answer: Any acid (vinegar, fruit juice, citric acid) with baking soda.

What do we need our children need to learn?

• the language used around measurements such as weight, capacity, volume and time
• they need to know about  units used in the past, Imperial Units (ounces, pounds, yards, hectares, pints,etc) and the System International used today (see below)
• they need to know how to convert kilograms to pound, or litres to pints etc, as well as scaling up or down – a skill used by builders on a daily basis.

Teaching Volume and Capacity

The language around volume and capacity can be tricky because these words are not often used in daily conversation, and therefore can be confusing for our young ones.

A litre bottle has a capacity of 1 litre whether it is empty or full; however

Small Funnel

if the water bottle is full, the volume of water is 1 litre if the bottle is empty the volume is zero.

Grab some containers of different sizes (egg cups, beakers, plastic storage boxes, pots and pans), provide some water (in the sink, the bath, or a bucket outside), and let children compare capacities by filling and pouring from one to another. Encourage them to use language such as full, empty, contains more/less than. Can your child compare the containers and see which ones have less and which ones have more?

Make sure they check the capacities by pouring – we don’t want them to think that taller, thinner containers always hold more that shorter, wider ones!

All children love playing with water. To fill our syringe you have to pull the plunger our slowly; what happens if you pull the plunger too fast. Developing motor skills doesn’t always mean we have to be fast!

Encourage your children to talk about what they are doing. If you have more than one child – buying just one kit will develop their ‘work as a team’ skills.. (oops should I be saying that!)

The aim of any activity is for your child/children to see themselves as scientists and engineers – I will let you do the research on the job opportunities open to them and the potential salaries they could earn.

Thinking like a scientist is a skill set which has allowed many individuals and companies meet the COVID problems. Some have survived, many are flourishing!

Activities to try at home

Here are some ideas for fun, practical activities to harness your child’s natural love of playing with water while building their confidence with volume and capacity.

1. Water, water everywhere

Grab some containers of different sizes (egg cups, beakers, plastic storage boxes, pots and pans), provide some water (in the sink, the bath, or a bucket outside), and let children compare capacities by filling and pouring from one to another. Encourage them to use language such as full, empty, contains more/less than. Can your child compare the containers and see which ones have less and which ones have more?

Ensure they check the capacities by pouring and don’t think that taller, thinner containers always hold more than shorter, wider ones. Older children can start to compare more accurately by using measuring jugs, and by drawing their own scales on empty plastic bottles in non-standard units (e.g. egg cups) or standard units (e.g. 100 ml).

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Organising a Festival Event? Supporting more than one school? Contact us to discuss discount options

Visualising the Invisible – Hands-on  investigations  plus  pre-recorded interactive  show  and  teacher  guidance with  Scientific Sue!

Our Mysterious Microbes Workshop has been designed to teach young people about microbes and how microbial infections are spread and can be prevented through improved hygiene.

An interactive virtual workshop suitable for children aged 6 – 13 years old.

The workshop consists of a 45-minute introductory show (requiring volunteers) by Scientific Sue which is followed by 2 (or possibly 3) science investigations.

Kit includes:

Teaching notes

Worksheets

Teacher guidance video – 27 minutes

Mysterious Microbes Science Show – pre-recorded video – volunteers required!

The activities include:

• Handwashing training session using glow in the dark technology.
• Snot-Spatter Investigation
• Yeast Races
• Use of disclosing tablets to visualise the biofilm we call plaque.

This programme introduces, in a fun and engaging manner, the different types of microbes which share our world with us.

The interactive activities cover the topics of:

Food Poisoning

• Hand hygiene.
• Dental plaque being a bacterial biofilm.
• Yeast is a useful fungus.
• Some microbes cause food poisoning.
• The use of a mask or tissues help prevent the spread of harmful microbes.
• Use of disinfectants help to protect humans from harmful microbes.

The learning objectives of the Mysterious Microbes Workshop are:

• Know where microorganisms (microbes) fit into the 5 kingdoms of life.
• Know what characteristics are used to determine if something is living or not.
• Some microorganisms are living (such as bacteria) and some are not (such as viruses).
• Only a few microbes are bad.
• Microbes can sometimes cause illness and diseases.
• The symptoms of illnesses (like sneezing) can lead to microbes being spread and other people getting infected.
• Good hygiene can reduce the spread of microbes and so stop infections spreading.

The mysterious microbe session is virtually introduced by Scientific Sue via a 20-minute pre-recorded video introducing microbes ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly!’

Even though this session is delivered remotely, via a pre-recorded video, there are opportunities for interactivity Sue will need some volunteers! She will ask for a volunteer, the video is paused, the activity carried out and when the volunteer/s have returned to their seats the video is restarted.

The ‘How to Organise your Event’ video guides the organiser through all sections of the interactive show and investigative workshop.

The virtual show section of this programme allows the children to:

• ‘Visualise the invisible’.
• Learn about bacteria, viruses and fungi.
• Understand that some microbes are good for us and some are bad.
• Discover how good microbes are used in the food industry.
• Find out how disclosing tablets can be used to help us see the bacterial biofilm call dental plaque.
• Discover how we use disinfectants to protect us against the bad microbes (which we call pathogens).

The hands-on workshop sections of this programme include:

• Ultra Violet (UV) Germ Training
• The Snot Spatter Experiment
• The Yeast Race Experiment, started in the introductory session, can also be extended as a group investigation allowing opportunities to explore scientific processes such as fair testing in more depth.

DELIVERY

Links to the teacher guidance video will be sent on the day the workshop kit is despatched.

The link for the show video will be sent 2 days before your event to give you time to familiarise yourself with it. It will only remain live for the day of your event.

Shipment tracking ID will be provided after your item has been despatched.

The delivery date stated is indicative and subject to availability, payment authorisation, verification and processing.

In case your product(s) is not delivered due to an incorrect or invalid address, or other reason outside of our control, we will not be able to process any claims. However, we will notify you if it is returned to us.

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Due to the elastic strap – one size fits all!

Our soft edge safety goggles are a must-have for all scientists (and budding scientists!) when performing experiments.

They are lightweight, durable and impact resistant glasses which adjust to any size required.

When not in use store your soft edge safety goggles out of direct sunlight and away from chemicals or abrasive surfaces.

To clean/disinfect, rinse in a 1% solution of mild detergent and dry with a soft cloth.

1. Impact-resistant lens with extra wide-angle vision design
2. Adjustable, elastic cloth head strap provides a comfortable fit.
3. Lightweight, Durable, Anti-splash, Anti-droplet, Dust proof ,Anti Scratch & Impact Resistant.

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