Science

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Autumn 1

05.09.23

The children have been busy in science this week. They looked at which materials would be best for a food preparation area and conducted a fair test to get results. they have used words such as flexibility, weight, transparency, expected absorbency to understand how to make the test fair.

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The children worked in groups and really enjoyed the experiments.

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27th November

Soluble or insoluble?

Some substances dissolve when you mix them with water.

When a substance dissolves, it might look like it has disappeared, but in fact it has just mixed with the water to make a transparent (see-through) liquid called a solution.

Substances that dissolve in water are called soluble substances. When you mix sugar with water, the sugar dissolves to make a transparent solution. Salt is soluble in water too.

Substances that do not dissolve in water are called insoluble substances. When you mix sand or flour with water, they do not dissolve.

Quiz time

Which word describes substances that dissolve in water? Substances that dissolve in water are ‘soluble’.

Which of these materials is insoluble in water? It's ‘sand’ that is insoluble in water - it just sinks to the bottom.

Sugar ___ in water. Sugar ‘dissolves’ in water.

True or false: When a soluble substance such as salt dissolves in a liquid, it has disappeared. It’s ‘false'

What could you do to make a substance dissolve faster in water? You could ‘heat it up’ to make the substance dissolve quicker.

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HOW DOES THE BALLOON EXPERIMENT WORK? The science behind this baking soda and vinegar balloon science experiment is a chemical reaction between an acid and base. The base is the baking soda and the acid is vinegar. When the two ingredients mix, the balloon baking soda experiment gets its lift! That lift is gas, carbon dioxide, or CO2.

See the video below of how the experiment went.

Spring 1

This term is all about Space!!!

The children are learning about the planets, the galaxy and imagining what could be out there. They are enjoying reading different science fiction books, Aquila, Cosmic and discussing how authors use of vocabulary and illistrations in books appeal to the readers.

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