This week in science club we have been investigating, how do clouds make rain?….how very appropriate for today’s stormy and unpredictable rain showers!
We made our very own rain cloud in a jar. We used shaving foam to represent the clouds and blue food colouring to represent the rain or precipitation. We made predictions about whether we thought the clouds would sink to the bottom or whether the water will turn blue.
What we found out was that the food colouring went through the cloud to make rain and it was blue.
We watched this clip…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncORPosDrjI and had a discussion about how rain is formed. We even had a go at saying some very impressive scientific words like – precipitation, condensation and evaporation.
The children have decided that next week for our focus we will be making a volcano explode! It’s going to be great fun. The children are all showing so much enthusiasm for conducting our experiments week on week, we really hope we are fostering a real love for all things science.
