Halloween at Blakelaw 2020 We had a great time handing out Halloween Activity Kits at the Halloween Pirate Treasure Hunt organised by Projects4Change at the Blakelaw centre! We had two activities - create your own ghost and create your own Halloween Illusions. Have a look at some of the impressive creations below!
Investigate Thursdays - Lava Lamps For this week's Investigate Thursday, I decided to make a lava lamp. To do this at home, you will need: - a clear container such as a jar, plastic bottle or glass - cooking oil - water - effervescent tablets such as Alka-Seltzer, Berocca or fizzy vitamin C
Investigate Thursdays - Question Creator Being a great scientist is all about asking questions. To investigate the world around us, we can start by being curious and coming up with some questions about the things we see. You can start with just one question or think of loads of questions! If you need
Investigate Thursdays - Growing spring onions Did you know that some plants and vegetables can grow from just water?! This month, our STEM Engagement Manager Kirsty trying this out with some spring onions. Kirsty said: "It was really exciting to watch the spring onion regrow on my sunny windowsill over the last month".
Investigate Thursdays – Dinosaur footprints This is one of Kirsty’s (Our STEM Engagement Manager’s) favourite science videos: https://www.bbc.co.uk/…/science-physics-ks2-ks3-how…/zbm4d6f It’s all about how dinosaur footprints have been kept in rock as fossils for us to investigate today. The video is part of Operation Awesome, a great video series on the BBC website. https://www.bbc.co.uk/…/c…/ks2-ks3-operation-awesome/z6mrt39
Investigate Thursdays – Musical Coat Hanger A sound experiment that only needs some string and a metal coat hanger! https://spark.iop.org/musical-coat-hanger We’d love to see you amaze your siblings or parents with this awesome experiment and work out why you think this happens. If you don’t have a metal coat hanger, try this experiment with
Investigate Thursdays – Make your own water cycle Did you know that all water moves around the earth continuously and is recycled over and over again. This is called the water cycle. Water from the sea, lakes and rivers is heated by the warmth of the sun, causing the liquid water to EVAPORATE/turn
Investigate Thursdays - Everyday materials How many things can you find in your home that are made from just one material? Out of metal, wood, plastic, glass, paper and fabric, which material can you find the most in your home? You could create a tally chart to keep track of what you
Egg Drop Shop! Our increasingly popular Learning Bus activity, Egg Drop Shop, took place again this term - this time at St. Augustine’s RC primary school in Darlington! This Learning Bus visit was kindly supported by the Institute of Physics. Egg drop shop is an activity where children engineer
On the hunt for propaganda and fake news in Liverpool City Our West End Young Digital Artists (WEYDAGroup) armed with investigative eyes and minds and their smartphones took a trip to the City of Liverpool in a quest to find interesting historic objects and artefacts around propaganda. First stop was Merseyside Maritime Museum
