Category: Science

Today the children of P5a created mini lava lamps by combining water, oil and a vitamin C tablet. When the tablet was added to the beaker, it fell through the oil unchanged until it hit the water where it started to fizz.

The chemical reaction released Carbon Dioxide gas.

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In Science we started a new topic ‘Mixing and Separating’.  Today we discussed that a mixture is a number of different materials combined together that don’t react chemically, meaning no new substance is formed.

The children were challenged to separate rice, sand and gems by making a sieve out of a piece of card. Some of them were more successful than others and in the end, they realised that the holes in their sieves had to be small to let the sand particles through first.  They had to then make larger holes to sieve through the rice and then they would be left with the gems.

Have a look below to see how they did!

We had lots of fun on the banking and in the Science Garden looking at different types of trees and their leaves. Once back in class, we managed to identify and sort the leaves we had collected into different categories.

We had such a fun time this week in Science learning all about the digestive system.  We even made our own poo!

It was really disgusting and amazing all at the same time! 🙂

Some of our photos you will find below.

We will be writing up our experiment in our jotters next week and we will all have a photo included to share with you at a later date.

  

   

As part of  British Science Week Primary 4 were challenged to create a marble run. They had to use a cardboard box and cardboard struts to create a marble run. The marble had to run for 60 seconds.

It was really fun – Adam W

It was very challenging – Zhang- Francois

It was really nice to take part in – Roan